Job Summary

Job Description

What is the role?

In this role, you will work alongside a cross-functional team of Product Owners, Development & QE Managers, and Vendors managing the delivery of medium complex Wealth Management Canada iterative waterfall and agile projects. You will serve a range of different stakeholders and be responsible for building and improving relationships across all levels of the organization. It will require you to provide agile project management servant leadership to your team and stakeholders. 

You will act as the main point of contact for assigned projects, prioritize work, address impediments, mitigate risks and issues, and ensure that projects are running efficiently and delivered with a high level of quality.

What will you do?

Organizes, facilitates & leads the agile program processes and their execution, escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps drive program-level continuous improvementAdditionally, this role is responsible for facilitating program events such as Program backlog refinement, Product increment planning, Sprint planning, Product Retrospective, and the Scrum of ScrumsThis role is a “hands-on” collaborative and facilitative role that drives all the Program ceremonies and processes associated with the RBC scaled Agile Management Framework (AMF) and holds the overall responsibility for all the processes and people involved in the product deliveries within the Agile ReleaseProvide end-to-end project management; including but not limited to building and managing the detailed schedule, managing financials, resource forecasting, identifying early warning indicators, and proposing solutionsIdentification and management of dependencies; ensuring dependent work is closely tracked and delivered to prevent schedule slippageCollect project performance indicators, build status reports, Management & VP-level presentations

What do you need to succeed?

The success of this role is measured in terms of how well program processes are being planned and executed as well as the success and predictability of the team delivering on the program objectives and commitments.

Must-have:

4+ years of Agile Project Management and/or Senior-level Scrum Master experience which includes both waterfall and agile projectsAdvanced knowledge of Agile Project Management workflows (milestones, critical paths, product & sprint backlogs, work back schedules, release burndown)Undergraduate degree (preferred) - Preferably in Business, Technology, or Financial ServicesProject/Agile/Scrum certifications (e.g. PMP, CSM, PSM, and/or SAFe)Strong communication skills with experience presenting to Senior Directors, VPs, and aboveProven ability to manage projects with third-party vendors and significant technology componentsAdvanced knowledge of the change, issue, and risk management

Nice-to-have:

Project Management experience within a financial institution managing client-facing digital products; including but not limited to wealth planning, wealth management, investing, banking

What’s in it for you?

An opportunity to work on an exciting wealth technology projects and make an impact on customer-facing productsWork in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing teamOpportunities to learn, grow and take on progressively greater accountabilitiesOpportunity to develop competencies and skillsets to keep up-to-date with agile tools and processes

#LI Post

#LI Hybrid

Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Coaching Others, Conflict Management, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Quality Management, Results-Oriented, Scrum (Agile), Staying Focused

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-02-26

Application Deadline:

2025-03-28

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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