Delivery Lead
Role Overview
The Technology Navigator also serves as a Delivery Lead for digital modernization initiatives across Wealth Management, Brokerage, and broader Canadian Banking Technology.
The role guides technology teams, coordinates releases and operational readiness, oversees software currency initiatives, and supports architecture and engineering alignment.
Experience in financial services is strongly preferred.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Technology Navigator also serves as a Delivery Lead for digital modernization initiatives across Wealth Management, Brokerage, and broader Canadian Banking Technology.
The role guides technology teams, coordinates releases and operational readiness, oversees software currency initiatives, and supports architecture and engineering alignment.
Experience in financial services is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Oversee technical delivery for software currency and technology upgrades in alignment with enterprise standards and modernization roadmaps.
- Manage release cycles and delivery activities to ensure readiness, appropriate sequencing, and minimal production risk.
- Lead end-to-end planning, risk management, and cross-team execution.
- Guide discussions with architects and technical leads on architecture, solution design, and technical standards.
- Support estimates for features, stories, and technical components.
- Identify and resolve roadmap and feature dependencies and impediments.
- Conduct Agile maturity assessments and use results to drive performance improvement.
- Support the Product Owner with story grooming, backlog readiness, prioritization, dependencies, and roadmap clarity.
- Create reliable delivery plans for software development projects.
- Provide standardized team-performance reporting on velocity, completed stories, status, risks, and decisions.
- Coordinate operational readiness with Security, Infrastructure, Network, QA, and Release Engineering teams.
Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of technical project delivery experience in a Delivery Lead, Scrum Master, Technology Navigator, or similar role.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of software development practices, engineering workflows, and system integration.
- Experience applying Agile, Scrum, or Kanban to complex IT projects.
- Understanding of backlog tracking, workflow metrics, task breakdown, and iterative planning.
- Hands-on JIRA and Confluence experience for planning, tracking, reporting, and collaboration.
- Experience coordinating enterprise application release management and readiness.
- Familiarity with DevOps principles, delivery pipelines, and environment management.
- Banking, Wealth, or Brokerage digital solutions experience is highly preferred.
- Hands-on technical experience as a developer, technical lead, or in an engineering background is an asset.
- Strong communication, facilitation, conflict management, stakeholder relationships, independent working, and influence without formal authority.
Benefits and development
- The posting mentions online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
- The employer describes an inclusive workplace and accessibility accommodations.
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