Agile Practice Lead

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada TD Bank Full time

TD Description
Stay current and competitive. Carve out a career for yourself. Grow with us.

Department Overview

  • 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.

- **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
  • Provides overall team leadership, training, coaching, development, succession, recruitment and resource management, engaging with Platform and Journey leads throughout
  • Accountability to understand the current skills and capabilities within the Agile practice; identifies potential steps to accelerate and reach the next level of capability
  • Accountable for hiring the best talent, growing these colleagues and managing retention
  • Acts as an expert or lead innovator and culture change agent for the Agile practice amongst Business, Journey, and Platform leaders

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
  • Effectively builds momentum among team and stakeholders
  • Proactively identify key business opportunities, research and recommend enhancements / modifications, develop strategies to achieve recommendations and work closely with team to execute and implement
  • Protect the interests of the organization identify and manage risks, and escalate nonstandard, high risk activities as necessary
  • Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
  • Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
  • Ensures employees are knowledgeable and assumes responsibility to minimize operational and regulatory risk by complying with Bank and industry Code of Conduct
  • Provide insights, build the proper behaviours and culture to delivery success business outcomes faster and improve delivery predictability using Agile

Employee/Team

  • 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 and ensures performance management activities are undertaken and provides regular input into employee assessments and development plans
  • Facilitate and foster a Community of Interest that engages members to use their knowledge and network to develop the craft and builds on the community across the organization
  • Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the Agile team through coaching plans; track, monitor and effectively address and/or reward performance in a timely manner
  • Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct
  • Responsible for management of the overall team(s)/ Practice providing both leadership and guidance
  • Set targets and objectives for the team, and deliver results
  • Fosters an environment/culture that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork and a high level of professionalism
  • Drives change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes
  • Creates an environment where the team freely escalates business challenges
  • Establishes and fosters a cohesive and collaborative team; promote a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce

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