Agile Practice Lead - Toronto, Canada - TD Bank

TD Bank

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Department Overview

Our vision to be the Better Bank is grounded in our purposedriven and forwardfocused strategy. Amidst a rapidly changing landscape, we know that technology plays a critical role in achieving this vision and delivering on our strategy. It also signals the need to accelerate investment in emerging capabilities to adapt to the changes happening around us and respond to customer needs more quickly. To accomplish this, we're evolving our platforms, introducing key enterprise practices and reimagining our customer journeys as part of the Next Evolution of Work (NEW).
NEW will empower colleagues to make decisions faster, work more efficiently and quickly identify and address customer and market trends to deliver innovative solutions at an unprecedented pace. NEW will enable us to move with purpose towards common goals, simplify how we work and elevate how we deliver customer value. By joining NEW, you'll have the opportunity to be part of a new way of working while making an impact on the future of banking in ways you've never imagined.
Job Responsibilities
In NEW, the Practice Leader Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation, promoting teamwork and handling disciplinary actions.
Recognized as an Agile expert, the Practice Leader is focused on coaching and training practitioners.
A people leader with expert knowledge of Agile disciplines and practices, proven ability to manage large teams
Experienced in continuous assessment of Practitioners and their craft to ensure enterprise practice standards are upheld
Grows team expertise to align with business/enterprise demand and direction; assess team skills and capabilities and continually look for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered
Coaches and develops employees, ensuring performance management activities are undertaken and providing regular input into employee assessments and development plans
Facilitates and fosters a Community of Interest that engages members to use their knowledge and network to develop the craft and build on the community across the organization
Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the Agile team through coaching plans; track, monitor and effectively addressing and rewarding performance in a timely manner
Responsible for management of the overall team(s)/ Practice providing both leadership and guidance
Set targets and objectives for the team, and deliver results
Accountable for building, maintaining and evolving the culture and community of Agile Practitioners. The role oversees a team of Agile practitioners, and is responsible for coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving the Practice's capabilities, and advising practitioners on their work to ensure solutions are sound.

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Customer

Accountable for coaching the team of practitioners' knowledge, skills and performance, building and evolving Scaled Agile capabilities, and advising practitioners on their work to ensure solutions are sound and follow Agile methodology
Executes on Practice strategy as it relates to introducing Agile focussed tools, methodologies and processes across the enterprise
Responds to inquiries from stakeholders at all levels in the organization (technical, business, Senior and Executive Management) and addresses/escalates concerns

Shareholder

Works closely with key business leaders to develop product roadmap, ensuring the optimal use of resources and leverage TD's delivery operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and scale
Advises, guides and executes on strategic ceremonies, reviews and communicates results, and adjust tactics accordingly
Proactively identifies change execution risks (related to methodology) and develops coaching plans to manage risk
Adheres to enterprise governance to ensure that work commitments meet all the performance, quality and compliance standards and follows the methodology
Investigates and where necessary escalates all change execution issues to support effective resolution and increase team performance
Monitors delivery execution health continuously and engages stakeholders as required if work commitment status changes
Develops innovative approaches (and leverages industry best practice) to resolve delivery execution problems /significant issues within the Journey, Platform or work commitment

Breadth & Depth

Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
Recognized as an Agile expert whose focus is on the coaching and training of practitioners
People leader with expert knowledge of Agile disciplines and pr