City : TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

Category : Strategy | Project & Program Management

Industry : Financial/Banking

Employer : RBC

Senior Project Manager would work closely with project managers, development teams, QE teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that the initiatives are delivered on time, with high quality, and in alignment with the goals and objectives.

What is the opportunity?

This role would require someone with experience in managing end-to-end initiatives, understanding release pipelines and coordinating between teams and stakeholders, as well as a deep understanding of mobile banking, system architecture and technology integration. The Project Manager would need to have excellent communication skills and be able to work well in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment. Additionally, this role would require someone with experience in agile delivery practices and the ability to drive continuous improvement in processes and procedures.

Overall, the ideal candidate should have a combination of technical expertise, project management skills, communication skills, risk management skills, program management skills, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What will you do?

• Leading key Mobile Platform initiatives, including Security and Privacy in Mobile Banking App, technical migrations, building cross-pillar/platform frameworks, updating SDK, etc.

• Developing detailed plans, managing timelines and resourcing efficiently across multiple development initiatives. Setting goals and contributing to the Mobile Platform Strategy.

• Coordinating cross-functional teams, including the core Team (Product managers, Development Team (Android, iOS, Mobile Services), Business Analysts, and Quality Engineering specialists) and external stakeholders.

• Acting as the primary point of contact between the team and stakeholders, ensuring regular communication on project status, risks, and impact.

• Facilitating Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) and ensuring the team follows agile best practices.

• Tracking team performance and velocity, facilitating process improvements based on data-drive insights.

• Identifying, managing and balancing various risks by leveraging understanding of mobile banking, system architecture and technology integration, including: individual project risks, risks impacting other in-flight projects, release-level risks, infrastructural platform risks, risks to existing features etc.

• Monitoring and reporting on project KPIs, ensuring that milestones are met and that delivery is on time and within scope. Continuous evaluation of a path to production in order to find opportunities to eliminate ‘waste’ and increase the rate of automation. Root cause analysis of repeated issues and implementing measures to avoid those issues in the future.

• Enriching the agile culture, evolving and iterating agile delivery practices to increase consistency, and harvesting best practices. Encouraging the team to be self-organized and cross-functional, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.

Must-have:

• 5+ years of Strong Project Management experience working in mixed environments (Waterfall, Agile).

• Strong technical knowledge in system design and integrations, ability to conceptualize while going deep where necessary.

• Strong decision-making in ambiguous environment based on limited information.

• Strong Jira/Confluence experience.

• Proactivity and drive to make changes and improvements.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in Mobile App and Services delivery lifecycle

• Experience in driving changes in organizations

• Program Management skills

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

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RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timePERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKINGRegularSalaried2024-10-252024-11-22

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