Digital Products Delivery Lead - Transaction Banking

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.

At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.

We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

The main purpose of this unit is to co-lead the delivery of Digital Products along with Business Owners, Tribe Leads and Global Product Owners across the business segment of Transaction Banking for Emirates NBD Group.

The delivery of Digital Products will be done by setting up cross-functional Agile Squads or vendor managed turnkey teams led by Business Tribe Leads/ Global Product Owners to support business segments in meeting overall business objectives in alignment with Organization’s Digital Strategy.

JOB PURPOSE

The Delivery Lead – Digital Products role is responsible for:

• Co-owning and facilitating the delivery

  of the digital products for their tribe along with Product Owners and Global Product Owners.
• Main responsibility is

  managing the interfaces and dependencies

  of Digital Product’s Epics / Features which need to be

  delivered by IT Platforms

  . They need to ensure that required feature is placed on the backlog of the relevant IT Teams with right priority and delivery commitments as needed. They are also responsible to

  track those dependencies

  as per agreed cadence while highlighting and mitigating associated risks.
• Lead the end-to-end design and development squads of

  Transaction Banking Channels

  and responsible to ensure scalability, resilience, reliability, security and performance.
• Also, a

  Scrum Master of Scrum Masters team

  with their tribe (Scrum of Scrums). He/She is responsible for facilitating and coordinating of the activities within the tribe. In addition, the Delivery Lead also act as a

  point of escalation

  for any issues or risks, ensuring complete focus on delivering efficiency and business value in the Agile delivery squads for their respective tribes.
• Facilitates and support the Tribe Leads and Product Owners in

  managing and tracking product’s funding

  while providing the budget utilization updates to the relevant stakeholders. They are also responsible to conduct 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.

• Managing Resource Capacity of their tribes

  with the help of Tribe Leads and Products Owners. A Delivery Lead helps the Product Owners in

  raising the resourcing demands

  and ensuring the resource hiring and placement in the squad with the help of workforce management team. If needed, they are also responsible to participate in the resource fitment interviews along with respective Chapter Leads and Workforce Management Team to assess the right fitment for their tribe.
• Facilitate the Tribe Leads/ POs in

  setting up new squads and assisting in sizing the new demands

  as and when needed.

• Oversee vendor-based deliveries and turnkey teams

  with vendors for their respective tribes as needed.
• While Tech Leads in the squads are responsible for release management, Delivery Leads are responsible for facilitating them by aligning all dependent IT Platforms and Teams for their respective releases and owning

  end to end release management process.

• Track and manage the product’s AMCs

  and overseeing the product’s technical health, resilience, and production issues resolution as per required SLAs.
• A

  proficient communicator

  able to raise and discuss issues and conflicts with senior stakeholders. He/She must be an

  expert problem solver

  by providing the structural resolutions of the blockers in their respective delivery tribe.

Key Results

• Agile Deliveries
• Scrum of Scrums
• Solution Design
• Release Management & Team Development

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• Prince 2, PMP
• Agile Methodology

Experiences

• Overall Years of Experience: 8+ years
• Agile: 4+ years
• Release Management: 3+ years
• Banking/Financial Domain: 3+ years

Key Skills

• Leadership & Agile management

WHY JOIN US?

We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At Emirates NBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one Emirates NBD team.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants, only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted.