#2024-d-0085 Scrum Master

**Scrum Master**

Location: Edmonton, AB

**Who we are**:
INVIDI Technologies is the world's leading developer of software transforming television all over the world. Our two-time Emmy® Award-winning technology is widely deployed by cable, satellite, and telco operators. We provide a device-agnostic solution delivering ads to the right household no matter what program or network you’re watching, how you're watching, or whether you’re in front of your TV, laptop, cell phone or any other device. INVIDI created the multi-billion-dollar addressable television business that today is growing rapidly globally.

INVIDI is right at the heart of the very exciting and fast-paced world of commercial television; companies benefiting from our software include DirecTV and Dish Network, networks such as CBS/Viacom and A&E, advertising agencies such as Ogilvy and Publicis, and advertisers such as Chevrolet and Verizon.

INVIDI’s world-class technology solutions are known for their flexibility and adaptability. These traits allow INVIDI partners to transform their video content delivery network, revamping legacy systems without significant capital or hardware investments. Our clients count on us to provide superior capabilities, excellent service, and ease of use.

The goal of developing a unified video ad tech platform is a big one and the right developers-like you-flourish in INVIDI’s creative, inspiring, and supportive culture. It is a demanding, high-energy, and fast-paced environment. INVIDI’s developers are self-motivated quick studies, can-do individuals who embrace the challenge of solving difficult and complex problems.

**About the role**:
In this role you will work alongside developers and product owners on software engineering projects. You will emphasize value creation and rigorous alignment to quality standards. In protecting the team from outside interference, you will ensure that developers can retain this commitment to excellence. This position will have a focus on team dynamics and communication. You will use reporting and metrics as positive indicators of the team’s capabilities and maturity. Scrum ceremonies are used to facilitate communication between members of the team (Agile Team Retrospectives) and between the team and the product stakeholders (Review). This role will act to ensure communication is efficient and participation is broad and will coach the team in using Jira and Confluence for managing and documenting development work. Utilizing Agile project management platforms and a servant-leader style, you support one or more Agile Engineering teams on its journey of continuous improvement and value-driven product development.

This individual will advocate for proper agile implementation as well as extending understanding of agile within the group and to other business stakeholders. The individual will have delivery-focused responsibilities guiding software engineers and software testers in the execution and completion of project activities to meet key milestones, quality and budget targets.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Help create an environment that fosters transparency, collaboration, learning, innovation, quality and speed.
- Monitor and support an agile team through continuous improvement of agile execution.
- Set the direction for compliance of commitments, pace and quality of work.
- Facilitate backlog grooming, planning, retrospectives, daily standups, reviews and other agile ceremonies.
- Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met
- Lead agile workshops for both development team, as well as key stakeholders
- Promote & advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them.
- Help the team recognize modest but steady operational improvement through the introduction of best practices to solve observed challenges and empower the team to self-organize.
- Work closely with the Product Owner to facilitate an environment for the team to increase productivity, quality, and predictability as well as prioritize technical debt vs product work.
- Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customers.
- Impediment resolution by advocating for the team and removing impediments; or seek help from outside the team.
- Help team to choose stories in a sprint/iteration, decompose stories into appropriate size tasks, ensure that team does not over commit and reduce technical debt.
- Track user stories dependencies between the scrum teams; inter-team coordination and collaboration.
- Manage scope creep and change within the Agile framework.
- Collaborates with other Scrum Masters to build training and best practices for Agile methodologies.
- Track and communicate scrum metrics including team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Facilitates and guides cross-functional teams in the execution of multiple development projects.

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