The Scrum Master 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.

**This is a Remote opportunity**

• 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:

Requirements

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Proficiency in risk management: ability to identify and assess risk and develop mitigation strategies.

• 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.

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)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 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.

• 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 effectively encourages the squad to uphold those principles. Effective at re-orienting the squads 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)