Agile Project Manager 2025-33

emergiTEL Inc.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Agile Project Manager to enhance its digital sales performance in Calgary. This role involves fostering an agile mindset, coaching teams, and streamlining project processes. Key responsibilities include maximizing stakeholder engagement and implementing project metrics. Ideal candidates will have strong project management and banking domain experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile methodologies and coaching.
• Strong background in project management and banking industry.
• Ability to report key metrics to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Foster an agile mindset and encourage good agile practices.
• Coach teams on processes and manage backlogs.
• Engage stakeholders to remove impediments.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Active listening

Team membership and coaching

Agile product management

Ceremony facilitation

Banking industry domain knowledge

Project management expertise

Business fundamentals

Tech strategy definition

Customer centricity

Job description

Position Title: Agile Project Manager

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

1. Enable an agile way of working and foster an organizational agile mindset, encouraging good agile practices.
2. Coach teams on Agile processes, such as writing useful user stories and managing backlogs.
3. Ensure effective onboarding of team members onto projects.
4. Support planning, preparation, and execution of Agile ceremonies.
5. Engage with stakeholders to remove impediments.
6. Conduct training sessions on topics like Agile processes and user stories.
7. Report key metrics to senior stakeholders.

Interpersonal and Leadership Skills:

• Stakeholder management
• Active listening
• Team membership and coaching

Top Skills:

• Core Technical Skills: Agile product management, ceremony facilitation, advanced knowledge of lean principles.
• Banking industry domain knowledge.
• Project management expertise including budget, change management, process governance, product management, project delivery, strategic planning, and risk management.
• Business fundamentals such as financial management, metrics reporting, business process management, customer centricity, and value creation.
• Tech strategy definition and roadmapping.
• Experience with scientific methods, design thinking, customer journey mapping, customer centricity, and value creation.

Project Description:

The Digital Sales and Onboarding Origination Project aims to enhance ATB's digital sales and onboarding performance, addressing gaps identified by a recent benchmarking study. Focusing on retail clients in fiscal year 2026, the project will optimize acquisition journeys for chequing, savings, credit cards, and unsecured lines of credit. It involves streamlining online and mobile application flows, enabling product bundling, and deploying pre-approved offers and calls to action across digital channels. A key goal is creating a seamless onboarding experience that meets market standards, validated by third-party assessment. This includes implementing a robust KYC process with multiple verification methods, integrating fraud checks, and ensuring a unified credentialing system across digital platforms. Initially, the project will leverage existing technology like Grow and SAP Account Origination, with assessments to determine future solutions.