Scrum Master

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Hire Intellect Full time

This is a remote position.

Job Title:  Scrum Master

Job Type: 6 Months Contract; Full-Time

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 firm by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver high-user value / high-quality products, allow the team to self-organize, 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 for 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 stand-ups, 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, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).

  • Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.

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

  • Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term 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.


Top Skills Required:

1) Servant Leadership:

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

  • Contributor to fostering a healthy work environment and builds self-sufficiency 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 intra-or-inter 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 re-orienting 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 open-feedback culture within the squad


Other Skills Required:

  • 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 Framework and Kanban.


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.







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