[Hiring] Digital Technical Delivery Lead @emergiTEL

Role Description

ATB is looking for a Digital Technical Delivery Lead. This role will report into an enterprise Digital Program and focuses on leading delivery teams in the planning, design, and development in support of the project. This is a technical leadership role responsible for guiding key technology decisions and developing technical specifications that can be utilized by development teams. A key accountability will be leading a cross-functional team of internal ATB employees and a 3rd party Digital partner in assessing and building out new DevOps practices and tooling. Additionally, the role is responsible for coordinating delivery of work across vendor and internal delivery teams.

• Technical Design Specifications: Provide technical designs in alignment with supplied solution designs, including home-grown solutions, configuration and customization in vendor/partner platforms, and integration to various systems in and out of the ATB landscape.
• DevOps Modernization: Work with a team spanning both internal resources and an external partner to assess current DevOps practices and tooling, form recommendations, and implement new, modern tooling with built-in automation and security to enable digital development at pace.
• QA & Shift-Left Governance: Lead QA modernization by implementing shift-left testing principles, automating unit and regression testing early in the SDLC, and setting standardized quality merge gates to minimize late-stage defects.
• Dependency Mapping & Alignment: Establish proactive dependency mapping across delivery squads and integrate review gates during planning to reduce late dependency discovery and ensure smooth cross-squad coordination.
• Technical Leadership: Act as the bridge between project managers, architects, vendor delivery teams, software engineers, and product stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business goals.
• Vendor & Tool Selection: Assist the solution architect and other team members in the evaluation and recommend tools and platforms that may best serve the initiative.
• Vendor Performance Management: Manage vendor partner delivery standards, ensuring compliance with established code review SLAs, established DevOps practices, and standardized CI/CD pipelines.
• Prototyping: Build Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to demonstrate the viability of new tools and practices in the technical landscape.

• Style/Behavior:
• Must be a problem solver, self-starter, work with limited supervision, a team player, and able to clearly communicate with other team members, management, and the user community, and effectively work with external vendors and technology partners.
• Work with stakeholders to derive and communicate timeline expectations for deliverables.
• Balances competing priorities while adhering to deadlines and aligning architecture to achieve value delivery.
• Understanding of business fundamentals, including business process management, customer centricity and value creation, and business problem solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in software engineering, with preference on candidates with experience in the financial industry, associated technology, and operations.
• Experience with API integrations, security best practices, and middleware.
• Familiarity with Google Suite of products, including Google Cloud Platform would be a benefit.
• Systems thinking; ability to understand a solution in the broader context of ATB’s services delivery, long-term visions, and business capabilities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Strong consulting skills (relevant/technical); recognized as a thought leader.
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of recommendations and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and incorporate cyber security, risk, fraud, and compliance requirements into designs.