Associate Director, Tech Delivery - Toronto, Canada - EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

EQ Bank | Equitable Bank

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Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Join a Challenger
Being a traditional bank just isn't our thing.

We are big believers in innovating the banking experience because we believe Canadians deserve better options, and we challenge ourselves and our teams to creatively transform what's possible in banking.

Our team is made up of inquisitive and agile minds that find smarter ways of doing things. If you're not afraid of taking on big challenges and redefining the future, you belong with us. You'll get to work with people who will encourage you to reach new heights. We like to keep things fun, ask questions and learn together.

We are a big (and growing) family.

Overall we serve more than 370,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank, and have been around for more than 50 years.

Equitable Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than 5 million members.

Together we have over $100 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives.

Our EQ Bank platform ) has been named the top Schedule I Bank in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks 2023, 2022, and 2021 lists.

Purpose of Job

Equitable has transformed to a hybrid-agile delivery methodology with cross-functional Pods dedicated to launching new products, features, and ongoing business value for portfolios.

As part of this journey, we require a Senior Technologist who can evolve our API centric approach into an extendable and reusable Platform approach.

We think of this Associate Director, Technology Delivery role as a mash-up of a Technical Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and Conceptual Architect who can define the direction and priority for Platform delivery Pods.

Our vision is that the Associate Director, Technology Delivery and their Pods should be empowered and autonomous to drive production changes, with broader support from shared services teams such as Dev Ops & Release Management, Infrastructure & Operations, Platform Admins, and Security teams.

In partnership with Business Leads, Business and Technical Architects, Dev Managers, Project Managers, and API Consumers, the Associate Director, Technology Delivery will drive multiple teams to complete discovery & planning (initiation, scoping and planning), design & build Sprints, solution testing/hardening, Releases to production, and ongoing build-measure-learn releases.

This role requires product centric expertise to hypothesize on platform needs, propose conceptual solutions and validate hypotheses.

The incumbent will ensure that the solution being delivered is cohesive and meets intended business value across the collaborative team of Bas, Developers, QA / Automated QA and external Technology partners as required.

In addition to project delivery, the Associate Director, Technology Delivery and Pod team will also manage, plan and deliver backlog enhancements and fixes as ongoing releases for the aligned business portfolio.

The Associate Director, Technology will provides status updates on delivery progress, velocity/trends, quality, RAID, impediments, KPIs and measurable business value and tailor the Bank's delivery methodology to meet objectives, and ensure consistent flow of work across cross-functional Pod team members.

The Associate Director, Technology Delivery role also includes people management responsibilities.

The Associate Director, Technology Delivery will be required to manage their Pod resources which include hiring, coaching and development of their direct reports.

Main Activities:

Plan and manage the technology deliver of one or more projects/new products for multiple business stakeholders
Manage the Platform & API roadmap, business priorities and investment tradeoffs
Hypothesize, test and validate platform opportunities
Collaborate with Sponsor, Technology Directors and Business Leads to create extendable and reusable conceptual architectures for APIs and MicroServices
As a Technology PO for platform APIs, ensure comprehensive security designs to manage and mitigate Cybersecurity risks
Partner with Core Leads to identify scope, user experiences and prioritize delivery via MVP/Release plan. Tailor delivery approach as required.
Create, manage and execute a platform / ecosystem strategy to increase API adoption and developer effectiveness across consumers. Establish ongoing Governance to monitor effectiveness and business value.
Facilitate and contribute to Agile ceremonies, including storypoint estimation, sprint grooming, retrospectives, etc.
Coordinate with and across shared service teams, such as Dev Ops, Infrastructure, Sec Ops, and AMS to release changes to production
Measure build progress, velocities, trends and quality to provide delivery status updates
Identify and resolve impediments / RAID
Drive continuous improvements within Pod teams and support overarching improvements tow