Scrum Master

The Scrum Master focuses on developing a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information. This role is a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices, processes, and behaviors for effective execution and quality delivery. The Scrum Master raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management, continuous improvement, and ceremony facilitation.

This is a Remote opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
• Support the Product Owner to ensure team 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 (e.g., using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs on an ongoing basis, identifying risks).
• 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, 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. Coordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams and 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.

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.
• Experience in Technology, Data and information management, financial services; federal crown corporation.
• Strong knowledge of Data ecosystems (e.g., ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Operations, data analytics platforms such as PowerBI, SAS Viya, Informatica MDM, SQL Server, Azure Databricks, Infosphere).
• Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile principles, the Scrum Framework, and Kanban.
• Capable of building strong relationships with squads and individuals, building a reputation as a trusted advisor, coach, and friend.
• 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.
• Fluent in customer centricity and encourages the squad to uphold those principles. Effective at re-orienting the squad's thinking around continuous iteration based on customer feedback when necessary.

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.

Job Type

Fixed term contract (Contract length: 10 months)

Schedule

• Monday to Friday

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferred)

Experience

• Scrum Master: 3 years (preferred)
• Project management: 3 years (preferred)
• ITIL: 3 years (preferred)
• Power BI: 3 years (preferred)
• Kanban: 3 years (preferred)

Language

• French (preferred)

Licence/Certification

• Certified Scrum Master (preferred)
• Reliability Security Clearance Level (preferred)

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting