agile project manager - delivery lead.

Are you a Senior Agile Delivery Lead with experience guiding complex technology initiatives and cross-functional product teams? Do you excel at facilitating Agile ceremonies, resolving cross-team dependencies, and aligning quarterly team priorities with executive strategic goals? Are you looking for a stable contract mandate with a premier national financial institution in Ottawa?

Our client, a prominent financial Crown Corporation based in Ottawa, is seeking a Senior Agile Project Manager to lead hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery planning and execution across key technology initiatives. In this role, you will partner closely with cross-functional business, technology, and vendor teams to translate annual objectives and OKRs into tactical quarterly delivery plans. You will oversee execution, proactively remove delivery impediments, and maintain transparent governance for executive stakeholders.

Advantages
- Lead strategic delivery initiatives directly impacting enterprise-wide financial products and services.
- Own end-to-end delivery management across a diverse ecosystem of business, technology, and vendor stakeholders.

- Long-Term Stability: Secure a full 12-month contract commitment.

Responsibilities
- Lead Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, daily stand-ups) and facilitate annual/quarterly OKR planning sessions.
- Maintain comprehensive delivery plans, track cross-team dependencies, monitor milestones, and deliver clear status reporting.
- Identify, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, and resource constraints, escalating effectively to minimize delivery impacts.
- Build strong relationships across business units, IT teams, external vendors, and executive leadership to ensure clear visibility into priorities and decisions.
- Promote delivery best practices, optimize operational workflows, and empower teams to take ownership of delivery outcomes.

Qualifications
- Experience leading Agile/Waterfall technology delivery initiatives for complex software projects or product teams.
- Hands-on experience facilitating sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
- Experience developing delivery roadmaps, coordinating dependencies, and tracking progress across multi-team ecosystems.
- Proven experience aligning cross-functional business and technical stakeholders around strategic objectives.

Asset Qualifications:
- Recognized certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or DASSM.
- Domain experience within the financial services, banking, or insurance sectors.
- Hands-on experience using tooling such as Azure DevOps, Planview, and Mural.

Summary
If you meet the above-listed criteria, register for a Randstad account online if you have not yet registered, and please apply directly online. We appreciate all applicants and those interested in this opportunity, however, only those with relevant experience will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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