Scrum Master

This is a remote position.

Job Title: Scrum Master

Job Type: Contract; FullTime

Location: Canada (Remote)

About the Company:

Our client is a Crown corporation dedicated to helping and equipping Canadian companies with trade knowledge financial solutions equity insurance connections and to grow their business with confidence in global markets.

About the Role:

Our client is seeking a Scrum Master Service Provider to support the client by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver highuser value / highquality products allow the team to selforganize remove impediments shield the team from outside distractions and continuously promote and support the team s use of Agile and Scrum. The Scrum Master Service Provider is to focus on developing a new and innovative solution aggregating and displaying company information will be a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices processes and behaviors for executing effectively and with quality; raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management continuous improvement and ceremony facilitation.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
  

• Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals vision and roadmap.
  

• Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team s goals (for example using burndown charts at standups reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis identifying risks etc.).
  

• Ability to implement navigate communicate and decipher trends using team metrics (e.g. throughput cycle time) DevOps/ IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs
  

• Clear obstacles in the team s path (for example dependencies on other teams) maintain a list of risks impediments and improvements.
  

• Facilitate team events (planning sessions retrospectives midcycle reviews and demos).
  

• Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Coordinate crossteam technology dependencies.
  

• Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
  

• Support identification of tradeoffs between shortterm and longterm benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
  

• Identify ways to strengthen teams understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
  

• Foster a continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect and adapt. Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
  

• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
  

• Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
  

• Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.
  

Requirements:

Specific Project Requirements:

• Completed an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science Business Administration or related field.
  

• Minimum 3 years experience in project management program management or business analysis.
  

• Minimum 3 years experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.
  

1) Servant Leadership:

• Capable of building strong relationships with squads and individuals building a reputation as a trusted advisor coach and friend.
  

• Contributes to fostering a healthy work environment and builds selfsufficiency within the squad by ensuring the talent and tools for success are available and squads are empowered to leverage them.
  

• Effective navigator of communications within and beyond the squad to align stakeholders.
  

2) Coaching and facilitation:

• Capable of delivering effective coaching to squad members to help achieve the full potential of the individual and the squad.
  

• Strong supporter of squad members by helping them develop necessary skills and Agile expertise.
  

• Effective collaborator with the Product Owner and squad to drive towards achieving Product Vision and OKRs.
  

• Ability to lead proactive resolution of intraorinter squad conflicts.
  

3) Agile knowledge and expertise:

• Familiar with Agile and leverages relevant frameworks (e.g. Scrum or Kanban) to optimize squad outcomes.
  

• Grasps the details of squad members technical approaches and proactively drives initiatives to improve engineering practices.
  

• Fluent in customer centricity and effectively encourages the squad to uphold those principles. Effective at reorienting the squads thinking around continuous iteration based on customer feedback when necessary.
  

4) Mindset and behaviors:

• Naturally and consistently brings enthusiasm and passion about the Enterprise Agile process to effectively encourage the squad to contribute to that environment.
  

• Adopts a growth mindset and promotes and openfeedback culture within the squad
  

• Experience working in: Technology Data and information management financial services; federal crown corporation.
  

• Strong knowledge of Data ecosystems Ei: Knowledge of ITIL IT Service Management and IT
  

• Operations. Knowledge of data analytics platforms such as PowerBI SAS Viya Informatica MDM
  

• SQL Server Azure Databricks Infosphere etc.
  

• Complex stakeholder management.
  

• Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle Agile principles the Scrum
  

Assets:

• Scrum Master certification (e.g. DASM DASSM PSM)
  

• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
  

• Knowledge of Planview Portfolios AgilePlace
  

• Fluently bilingual in both official languages French and English.