Agile Delivery Specialist

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Workday Full time

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

We have a phenomenal opportunity for an Agile Delivery Specialist to join the CIO team. Change delivery at Aviva uses the most appropriate delivery model, including Agile Scum, Kanban and XP. Making formal and informal scaling approaches to deliver large and/or complex change. Agile and DevOps is core to the way Aviva wants to operate including significant alignment to Systems Thinking and other modern, adaptive and team-centric approaches to delivery and operations.

The Agile Delivery Specialist role supports adoption of and alignment to these approaches, developing and continuously improving Agile capability and maturity in the team.

The Agile Delivery Specialist's main purpose is to ensure their teams lead change delivery as effectively as possible with quality and innovation in line with Agile values and principles. Continually driving value optimization.

This is a facilitative servant leadership role. The Agile Delivery Specialist should seek to promote self organization within the team and drive increasing levels of software engineering maturity such as DevOps.

The Agile Delivery Specialist ensures the path is clear for the team, removing blockers, facilitating discussions, enabling seamless communications and working with the Technology Platform Lead and Product Owner to clarify the Product backlog ahead.

Does this sound like your next role? Read on

What you’ll do:

  • Guide the team to follow the values and principles of Agile and apply the appropriate Agile framework and techniques and build an environment of self-organization

  • Teach and Coach the team and organization in Agile theory and software engineering techniques.

  • Support and educate Product Owners, especially with respect to refining and maintaining a product backlog.

  • Ensure both internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information on team activities.

  • Collect and communicate all vital metrics and propose new ones in the spirit of constant empiricism.

  • Optimize integrated change across assigned technology platform. Ensure quality is driven into all aspects of the delivery lifecycle and defects are driven out as early as possible.

  • Perform gap analysis of overall technology platform capabilities and tool and develop a roadmap for improvement

  • Support value stream mapping carried out by Agile Delivery Lead

What you’ll bring:

  • A solid grasp of Agile values and principles.

  • A good overall knowledge of a range of Agile frameworks

  • Insurance business knowledge.

  • Good collaborator management skills and an ability to encourage individuals and teams to change and improve.

  • Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes: Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Pairing, DevOps, Refactoring, ATDD/TDD/BDD, Extreme Programming (XP), Value Stream Mapping

  • Self-motivation and willingness to learn and explore new ideas. Qualifications Professional Certification (minimum PSM1 or equivalent)

What you’ll get:

  • Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

  • Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

  • We’ll support your professional development education.

  • Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

  • Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

  • Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

  • Hybrid flexible work model

Aviva Canada has an accommodation process in place to provide accommodations for employees with disabilities. If upon commencement of employment you require a specific accommodation because of a disability, please contact your Talent Acquisition Partner so that an appropriate accommodation can be arranged. This process applies throughout your career with Aviva Canada.

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