Description
As a Senior Director of the Cloud Transformation Program at National Bank, you’ll coordinate the delivery of our technology projects and provide value. In this role, you’ll have a positive impact on our organization with your leadership, your outstanding organization skills and your project/program delivery experience in an Agile/Safe context.
Your role
- Manage and implement complex, high visibility technology projects prioritized by the IT infrastructure evolution and Transformation sector by creating a motivating environment
- Continuously optimize the use of project resources to achieve the sector’s objectives
- Lead and mobilize (matrix-based) a multidisciplinary team of more than 150 people by promoting innovation and collaboration
- Diagnose problem situations, take action and help resolve complex problems by implementing solutions
- Identify and manage the risks and issues inherent to the project in a consistent, proactive manner
- Produce various reports to track the progress of the project and provide progress reports while adapting your communications to your audience, in particular for executives
- Ensure that the various IT and business teams are aligned on the various interdependencies related to your project
- Be an agent for change, promoting our values and ensuring constant communication with all internal and external stakeholders
- Make sure the process is efficient and the Agile methodology is followed in a product minset
Your team
The IT team is made up of more than 3,300 proactive, collaborative experts who work with agility to seize opportunities, stay on the cutting edge of technology, and continuously improve our processes.
As part of the infrastructure evolution and Transformation sector, you’ll be on a large team of 200 colleagues, and you’ll report to the Vice-President, Infrastructure Evolution and transformation. Our team stands out by ou actions oriented and pragmatic approach as well as quality comes first. We want to contribute to your quality of life by offering you as much flexibility as possible. For example, we offer a hybrid work environment along with a modular schedule that you can adapt to your needs.
The Bank values ongoing development and internal mobility. Our personalized training programs with on-the-job learning help you become skilled in your role and develop new fields of expertise. Tools such as Udemy, the Data Academy, language training, Harvard Manage Mentor, coaching and mentoring support are always available.
Prerequisites
- Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience or a master’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience
- At least 10 years of experience as a project/program manager, working on large-scale projects/programs and in large companies using agile
- Proven experience in managing teams (matrix-based)
- Experience leading workshops and coaching
- Solid knowledge and experience with Agile delivery mode
- Knowledge of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience in complex IT ecosystems and large companies
- Strong political acumen and ability to interact effectively with senior management
