Agile Transformation Lead, Strategy & Operating Office, Technology & Operations

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney. 

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

Job Description

At CPP Investments, we are looking for an experienced and hands-on advisor/ leader to help our teams to sustain and mature with the product approach and agile practices. Reporting to Director, Strategy & Operating Office, Technology & Operations, the Agile Transformation Lead guides and supports our product teams and stakeholders to build product centric delivery and agile capability across the organization. The Agile Transformation Lead will play a key role in long-term strategy across the business, helping our teams deliver best products and value in faster and more efficient manner. The Agile Transformation Lead, Strategy & Operating Office is accountable for:

• Provide ongoing guidance and consulting support to product teams, aiding them to sustain Agile transformation and maturing their Agile practices and product mindset, with flexibility to make adjustments to accommodate different needs of the teams.
• Drive the agile transformation by advocating for Agile principles, continuous improvement, and value delivery throughout the organization.
• Define and measure agile maturity to drive continuous improvement of Agile practices and value delivery through adoption of industry best practices.
• Advise teams on development of long-term product planning/roadmap and backlog prioritization, ensuring a healthy backlog that aligns with organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to define clear objectives and key results (OKRs) to drive value delivery.
• Set up appropriate metrics to measure and track teams' progress in Agile adoption through various methods like surveys, data analysis, interviews, etc.
• Promote the use of DevOps practices and tools to enhance software delivery.
• Define guidelines to align teams on agile practices, including best practices on tooling e.g. Jira, Jira Align
• Design and deliver meaningful training to educate teams and leadership on the Agile mindset, principles, and practices to enhance the organization's execution and innovation.

Qualifications

 If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• 7+ years of years of hands-on Agile delivery and/or Agile practitioner
• Advanced knowledge of Agile principles, mindset and frameworks paired with technical acumen
• Exhibit strong flexibility and adaptability skills, thriving in environments with dynamic and evolving needs
• Expertise with organizational change management and culture change
• Experience using metrics/OKRs to measure team and organizational performance
• Understanding of product development and delivery; a technical background in web or software development will be an asset
• Hands-on experience using various agile tools, such as Jira, Jira Align
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance

Additional Information

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.