Delivery Lead - Digital Products Wealth

The Delivery Lead role is responsible for co-owning and facilitating the delivery of the initiatives of Wealth Tribe along with Tribe leads and Product Owners. Foster collaboration, continuous learning, innovation and engineering culture among squads.

Candidate must possess excellent Domain, problem solving skills and functional understanding of banking domain in the context of Wealth Management including Wealth Portfolio and Order Management Processes, Wealth Asset Classes such as Bonds, Funds, Stocks, IPOs along with detailed understanding of Equity Trading, MIP, Lombard Lending and Market Pricing. Delivery Lead must stay updated with the latest industry trends such as Digital Assets Trading, regulatory requirements around new asset classes, and emerging technologies like AI/ML, IoT and biometrics. Achieving highest degree of platform stability and compliance to NFRs. Apply domain knowledge to guide project teams and make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Lead is responsible for working closely with Tribe leads from Business in defining strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between delivery and overall Business Objectives, they work closely with Senior leadership teams to shape the long-term direction of delivery strategies aligning with business goals. 
• Delivery Lead’s main responsibility is managing product dependencies of Digital Product’s Epics / Features which need to be delivered by IT Platforms. DL needs to ensure that required feature is placed on the backlog of the relevant IT teams with appropriate priority and delivery commitments from respective DL/platform owners. They are also responsible for tracking those dependencies as per agreed cadence while highlighting and mitigating associated risks.

• Delivery Lead is responsible for overseeing and managing the delivery of initiatives using Agile Methodologies ensuring the Agile practices are followed helping the teams to reach highest level of Agile Maturity

• He/She should possess strong Stakeholder Management Skills to act as a primary escalation point for internal stakeholders, including Products owners, business units, external vendors, to ensure alignment of goals and delivery timelines.
• Delivery Lead should be able to lead cross functional teams including developers, testers, Business Analysts, facilitating cross team collaboration to deliver Digital solutions effectively.
• Delivery Lead should foster a culture of Continuous Improvement by gathering feedback, driving Agile retrospectives, and lessons learned to optimize future deliverables.
• He/She should regularly track progress of OKRs and KPIs, reporting to Head of Digital products and other key stakeholders to keep them informed. 
• Delivery Lead should promote a culture of Innovation / adopting emerging trends in terms of system, people, and process helping the Tribe achieving OKRs and KPIs
• Delivery Leads are responsible to ensure all the Digital products under the Tribe meets highest level Quality, Security standards and regulatory requirements of the respective region.

• Delivery Lead also facilitates and supports the technology & business tribe heads in managing and tracking product’s funding while providing the budget utilization updates. They are also responsible for conducting the Product’s Portfolio Reviews for their tribes with relevant Tribe Leads, Business Owners and IT Leadership Teams as well as providing the portfolio updates to the PMO’s Portfolio Management Team for their tribes for Business Portfolio Review Meetings. Provide regular updates on delivery status, risks and issues, and ensure effective dissemination of information.

• Delivery Lead is also responsible for Managing Resource Capacity of their tribes with the help of Tribe Leads and Products Owners. Delivery Leads help the Product Owners in raising the resource demands and ensuring resource hiring and placement in the squad with the help of workforce management team. If needed, they are also responsible for participating in the resource fitment interviews along with respective Chapter Leads and Workforce Management Team to assess the right fitment for their tribe.
• Delivery Leads is also responsible for facilitating the Tribe Leads/ POs in setting up new squads and assisting in sizing the new demands as and when needed. Delivery Leads are also responsible for identifying, evaluating and onboard vendors/partners and track product deliveries for their respective tribes as needed. 
• While Tech Leads in the squads are responsible for release management, Delivery Lead is responsible for facilitating them by aligning all dependent IT Platforms and Teams for their respective releases and owning end to end release management process.
• Delivery Lead is responsible for managing and guiding other delivery leads in the Domain leading them to success in their responsibilities. 
• Delivery Lead is also responsible for tracking and managing the product’s OPEX & AMCs and overseeing the product’s technical health, resilience, and production issues resolution as per required SLAs. 
• The Delivery Lead must be a proficient communicator able to raise and discuss issues and conflicts with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Graduate Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

• Traditional Project Management Methodologies (Prince2/PMP)

• Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)

• Function (Agile): 4+ Years

• Function (Release Management): 3+

• Domain (Wealth): 3+ Years

• Domain (Banking/ Financial): 5+ Years

• Overall Experience: 10+ Years 

• Industry – Banking IT Expertise (min. 3 years)

• Technical – Banking IT expertise (min. 3 years)

• Functional – Owning and implementing Customer facing channels 

• AWS or Azure SA Certification

• Leadership and Agile management

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ENBD

Emirates NBD, the leading Banking Group in the MENAT region, was formed on 19 June 1963, when H.H. Late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum signed the Charter of Incorporation of the National Bank of Dubai (NBD) which became the first National Bank established in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). With the blessings of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, NBD merged with Emirates Bank International (EBI) on 06 March 2007, to form Emirates NBD, the largest banking group in the region by assets. On 16 October 2007, the shares of Emirates NBD were officially listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM). The merger between EBI and NBD to create Emirates NBD, became a regional consolidation blueprint for the banking and finance sector as it combined the second and fourth largest banks in the UAE to form a banking champion capable of delivering enhanced value across Corporate, Retail, Islamic, Investment, and Private Banking, Global Markets & Treasury, Asset Management and Brokerage operations throughout the region.