Global Financial Firm located in MISSISSAUGA, ON has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Engineering Project Manager / Business Analyst
"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.
You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.
We will be expected in the office weekly 3 days depending on the team requirement.
****Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers.
Developer Engineering Project Manager / Business Analyst
About the Role
The Developer Desktop Tools (DevTools) Team in Chief Technology Office (CTO)) is building an end-to-end solution that rethinks how over 38K people install, upgrade and use software tools on their desktops. That means challenging the status quo to move to the next level state-of-art. This is a team of professionals who treat the developers' pain as their own pain. We use the latest technologies to eliminate barriers, so developers can focus on coding instead of a lengthy setup process.
Providing and maintaining an effective development tools setup is the first stage of the software development. It has a huge impact on each developer's productivity, especially in a regulated development environment. You will act as an evangelist, understanding the users as well as security and compliance requirements; discussing and challenging assumptions with different teams; and navigate to a world-class solution for our developers. Our talented development team will support your roadmap to implement the software solution.
Since your thoughts will shape how over 37K people use software, you want to listen to people and help them by using your software solution. You believe in a team with a proper software process as the foundation to a successful product. Triage and project management is not something foreign to you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a team player in a multi-discipline team which contains PM, UX research, support, test, and dev with different tech background.
- Work on issue triage, Jira creation, and documentation.
- Can navigate the cooperation and build up relationship with teams form different disciplines.
- Works with a wide variety of teams, understand the security/risk/compliance requirements. Explore the possibility of a new way to solve the problem
- Negotiate and get buy-in from related teams to support the new solution
- Document solution in a way that dev team can easily understand and perform
- Present the solution in a way that business user can easily understand
- Understand the current dev's team's capacity and negotiate a feasible solution with stakeholders.
- Drives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
Characteristics:
- An individual whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and when to break them
- Risk and security focused, putting diligent risk management and security at the core of everything they do
- Obsessed with exploring unknow and solve the problem along the way
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in business analysis or systems analysis
- Demonstrated expertise in presenting and using planning tools
- Experienced in navigating a global cooperation and have a decent understanding of the security/compliance requirements a financial institution is facing
- Experienced in business process transformation project, ideally in a financial firm.
- Experienced in working with PM, UX designer, and dev from different background
- Proven track record of exploring the unknown domain, propose new idea, and get buy-in from stakeholders
- Experienced or have decent understanding of issue triage and project management principles
- A nature team player who can easily mingle with folks from different background.
- Proficient in Word, Excel, Visio, Jira, and ideally Microsoft Project as well.
- Excellent communication skill and have experience in present a complicated idea in layman's words
- Knowledge in software deployment and setup on Windows and other platforms
- Knowledge in software development on .NET development, ideally working as PM/BA with a well-structured dev team
- Program/Project Management skill is an asset.
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.