Agile Practice Lead - PO Practice

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Enterprise Enabling Functions

Pay Details:
$108,800 - $163,200 CAD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

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• Practice Excellence - Establishing an enterprise-wide knowledge hub and single source of truth about the PO discipline from which practitioners can leverage best practices, standards, frameworks and methods.
• Talent Acceleration - Provide learning opportunities to develop the breadth and depth of the PO skillset and enable exciting, new career paths.
• Community of Interest - Provide a forum for a network of passion-driven people who share a common interest in a topic, collaborate, build networks, share knowledge and learn from peers.
• Note: The 4th Practice Pillar - Planning & Allocation - does not apply to the PO practice due to its decentralized design.

• PO Enablement Practice Leads focus most on building and evolving the Practice's overarching capabilities and engage in creating meaningful support, content, training, and experiences for the broad PO community.
• PO Practice Leads are aligned to specific Journey and Platform structures and provide more specific coaching on knowledge, skills and performance, facilitate action planning and advise practitioners on their work. In our practice, this coaching is focused at the PGO layer.

• Accountable for coaching the team of practitioners on job function knowledge, capabilities, skills and performance, supporting their knowledge of Scaled Agile capabilities, and advising practitioners on their work to ensure solutions are sound and are exhibiting proper Agile mindsets and behaviors.
• (PO PLs): Directly supports teams of highly skilled Practitioners operating in Agile methodology frameworks without getting involved in day-to-day activities, providing quality assurance on the application of methods and practices owned within the applicable Journeys and Platforms
• Responds to inquiries from stakeholders at all levels in the organization (technical, business, Senior and Executive Management) and addresses/escalates concerns
• Supports overall Product team leadership, training, coaching, development, succession, and recruitment, engaging with Platform and Journey leads throughout
• Accountability to understand the current skills and capabilities for Product Owners within TD and across the industry; identifies potential steps to accelerate and reach the next level of capability
• Support Journeys and Platforms in their efforts to hire the best talent, grow these colleagues and manage retention
• Acts as an expert or lead innovator and culture change agent for the PO practice amongst Business, Journey, and Platform leaders

• (PO PLs): Collaborates across teams to develop innovative approaches (and leverages industry best practice) to surface, design, action plan, and resolve problems/pain points within the Journey/Platform
• Effectively builds momentum among team and stakeholders
• Proactively identify key maturity 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 non-standard, 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

• Support PO People Managers in growing 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

• Support PO People Managers in their efforts to coach and develop employees 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
• Support and coach employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct
• Shares knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the PO teams and relevant stakeholders, ensures the timely communication of issues and encourages good working relationships with other functions and teams
• Participate in setting targets and objectives for the team, measuring progress, 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
• Fosters a cohesive and collaborative team; promote a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and encourage the team to achieve common goals and objectives
• Acts as a brand ambassador for the bank, both internally and/or externally

• Support PO people managers to hire the best talent, set goals, develop staff, manage employee performance, and promote teamwork
• Recognized as Product Ownership expert whose focus is on the coaching and training of practitioners
• Expert knowledge of Agile disciplines and practices

• Deep expertise and knowledge of TD frameworks and Agile methodology, tools, best practices, processes and procedures, as well as broader organization issues

• Ability to provide guidance to multiple teams, growing capability across the organization
• Quickly adapts to customer, stakeholder and regulatory needs in collaboration with PO People Managers (e.g. EPOs, PGOs)
• Provides leadership and guidance to several teams and solves cross-department issues;
• Participates in the development of practice strategies
• Expert collaborator with ability to bring diverse teams together to achieve a common goal
• Resolves most unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Offers advice, guidance and training on how to transition to and operate in scaled delivery environments across all levels
• Generally reports to the Practice Owner

• Undergraduate or post graduate degree
• Expert knowledge of Agile principles and practices, with extensive experience working in an Agile
• Typically requires 10 years of Agile experience
• 5+ years of Product Owner or equivalent Agile leadership experience

• SAFE Trained a plus

• Experience as an Agile coach or leader involved in large-scale Agile transformations a plus