Scrum Master

This role will include assuming duties of Scrum Master and in partnership with a Release Train Engineer as well as Product Owners for a complex, agile projects. The ideal Scrum Master will help lead development of agile processes and Product Teams. The project scope is to fulfill requirements for Integrated Operation’s Planning Products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that project goals, issue scope, and product domains are understood by everyone on the team or squad as well as possible.
- Remove blockers to team progress and proactively help the team navigate how to make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future.
- Implement Agile and Scrum best practices throughout all teams.
- Help coordinate product specifications, sprints, meetings, sprint demos, and stand-ups.
- Leads the daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Track project progress and resolve potential issues the team could be dealing with.
- Offer coaching and mentoring of Agile and Scrum values and best practices.
- Use reliable sources to estimate how many deliverables are needed for each iteration.
- Help employees write effective user stories and turn them into subtasks.
- Organize code reviews and team audits to maintain quality and productivity while anticipating potential risks.
- Coordinate processes and the product’s release together with other departments.
- Help the product owner prepare the product backlog for upcoming sprints.
- Support the ART team’s refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready.
- Assists the ART in communication and coordination with project stakeholders during feature definition and delivery. Document all progress and communicate it to the program/upper management and stakeholders.
- Leads the retrospective
- Ensuring effective communication and coordination for and during quarterly planning.
- Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
- Work with the Project Owners to understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.
- Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
- Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
- Ensure the overall cost, schedule, and performance of the program.
- Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases.
- Act as consultant/coach to management in resolving unusually difficult problems.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years managing teams and / or significant complex projects.
- Proven, prior experience as Scrum Master for long lived value streams and Products.
- Demonstrated Scrum Master experience in organizing, planning and executing large-scale projects from conception through implementation. Experience coordinating multiple teams in a technology environment.
- Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing and explaining technical and project related information.
- Ability to easily build new relationships and proactively establish a variety of contacts across the organization.
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams.
- Broad range of program management and leadership skills required.
- Proven ability to balance concurrent activities.
- Strong knowledge and experience in software development in an Agile environment.

**Certifications**:

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent - REQUIRED.
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4) certification or equivalent - REQUIRED.

About Teck

At Teck, we value diversity. Our teams work collaboratively and respect each person’s unique perspective and contribution.

Teck is a diversified resource company committed to responsible mining and mineral development with major business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc, and energy. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, its shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TECK. A and TECK.B and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TECK.

The pursuit of sustainability guides Teck’s approach to business. Teck is building partnerships and the capacity to confront sustainability challenges within the regions in which it operates and at the global level. In 2018, Teck was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) for the ninth straight year, indicating that Teck’s sustainability practices rank in the top 10 percent of the world’s 2,500 largest public companies in the S&P Global Broad Market Index.