Agile Team Lead (Infrastructure Enablement)

MCAP Group of Companies; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mortgage finance company in Ontario is seeking an Agile Team Lead to guide an Agile Team in delivering key work items. This role involves inspiring the team, coaching in agile practices, and managing project financials and stakeholder communications. Ideal candidates have over 2 years in an Agile environment, preferably in financial services, and possess strong communication and coaching skills. This position offers a chance to contribute significantly to a major player in the mortgage finance sector.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in an Agile environment as an Agile Coach, Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Product Owner.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Guide an Agile Team to deliver work items based on goals and commitments.
• Inspire and empower the team to self-organize and coach them in agile practices.
• Monitor financial progress and forecast resourcing and budget expenditures.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Communication

Coaching

Continuous improvement

Education

Post-secondary degree or diploma

Agile certification

PMP or PMI-ACP preferred

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Agile Team Lead (Infrastructure Enablement)

MCAP is a leading mortgage finance company with over $150 billion in assets under management. This role is part of the Information Technology department and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

Role

The Agile Team Lead is responsible for guiding an Agile Team to deliver work items based on goals and commitments. The Team Lead inspires and empowers the team to self‑organize, coaches the team in agile practices, champions proper agile governance, provides financial and status reporting, and collaborates with other Team Leads to evolve agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Create a Vision document or business case.
• Meet story readiness criteria and educate story writers on proper content and format.
• Populate, refine, and prioritize the backlog and align it with Product Vision.
• Obtain stakeholder feedback for evaluation of projects in progress and identify issues and risks raised by the team.
• Monitor financial progress, validate accuracy, and forecast resourcing and budget expenditures.
• Host Steering Committee meetings and provide regular status reporting to stakeholders.
• Research and pilot agile strategies and practices, establish and recommend agile policies and best practices.
• Collaborate with other Team Leads to ensure consistency across teams, facilitate movement of work or resources, and encourage a culture of continuous improvement.
• Facilitate stand‑ups, planning sessions, backlog refinement, stakeholder demos, and retrospectives.
• Resolve impediments, manage issues and risks, maintain Agile Team Dashboard with KPIs such as velocity, and empower the team to optimize processes.
• Ensure resources are available, keep current with agile trends, educate, inspire, and encourage full participation of team members.

Operational Management

• Lead the team through lifecycle phases: Inception, Construction, and Transition.
• Facilitate team retrospectives, decision‑making, and continuous improvement planning.
• Maintain dashboards and KPIs to support continuous improvement and transparency.

What You Bring to the Team

• 2+ years’ experience in an Agile environment as an Agile Coach, Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Product Owner.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Experience using Azure DevOps or comparable agile delivery tools.
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Organized, detail‑oriented, disciplined, and a self‑starter with high motivation.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Post‑secondary degree or diploma; Agile certification; PMP or PMI‑ACP preferred.

Apply

If this sounds like you and you are looking to be part of one of Canada’s largest independent mortgage finance companies, then we want to hear from you!

MCAP provides equal opportunities for all applicants and is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.