IT Agile Project Manager

Position Purpose
* The role of Scrum Master/Delivery Lead sits within the IT department for Australia and New Zealand, and the ITO function for the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division. The Scrum Master/Delivery Lead has several core responsibilities:
 * Work with the Project Managers in the Business Change Management (BCM) team to plan and forecast the portfolio of work as well as owning the IT project governance.
 * Work with the agile squads and act as a Delivery Lead to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
 * The role is a composition of three roles: IT Lead/PM, Scrum Master, Release Manager

Key Responsibilities
 * Planning – this is an essential duty of a project manager, determining what needs to be done, who is going to do it, and when it needs to be done. Planning activities include:

 * Producing the Project Documentation and following the Project governance as per the project methodology
 * Developing and maintaining roadmaps and schedules
 * Tracking estimates v actuals

 * Exhibits Lean-Agile leadership – Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Helps the team embrace core agile values and principles. 
 * Facilitates the team’s progress – Ensures that the team maximizes the flow of work and acts as a scrum master to ensure that the board is being updated daily.
* Leads team efforts in relentless improvement – Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective.
 * Facilitates events – Facilitates team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective ensures they are productive and kept within the time box.
 * Supports the Product Owner – As the Scrum Master part of the role you will help the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
 * Facilitates the removal of impediments – Many blocking issues will be beyond the team’s authority or may require support from other teams. This role supports the team in addressing and eliminating these issues.
 * Responsible for Releases – This role is responsible to get releases into production.
 * Supports Agile adoption – This role will also encourage the use and adoption of agile techniques and practices.

 * Facilitates the estimation process – Guides the team in establishing relative estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities with the functional expertise of the Product Owner.

 Technical and Behavioral Competencies required

 This role requires excellent communication skills, patience, and the ability to deal with all levels of experience and management. You must be a self-driven person who is looking for success and drives improvements of the process. This is a great opportunity to be part of a great team.
 * 10+ years project management experience
 * 5+ experience in an agile cultured environment
 * Experience in an Information Technology capacity in the Financial Services Industry

 Specific Qualifications Required

 Degree qualified in IT, Business, or related discipline; and / or relevant work experience in a similar role.

 About BNP PARIBAS

 As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

 We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

 BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community

 BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization

 Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness

 BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

 BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us at [1] bnpp.hrss.recruitment.admin@asia.bnpparibas.com or +61 2 9216 8633 (and ask for the Talent Acquisition Manager in the HR Team).

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