Job#: 2092051 Job Description: Job Title: Senior Scrum Master

Location: Downtown Toronto

Contract Type: 12 months - High likelihood of extension

Start Date: November 2025

Project Overview: The contractor will be embedded across multiple agile pods, contributing to a dynamic and fast-paced environment. This role offers exposure to a variety of initiatives within capital markets and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and tools.

Key Selling Points:

• High chance of contract extension
• Exposure to multiple agile teams and capital markets projects
• Opportunity to work with modern tools like Jira, Clarity, Eclipse, and Golang

Roles and Responsibilities: Team Coordination

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Refinement, Reviews, Retrospectives) with a focus on outcomes.
• Align teams on sprint goals, manage capacity and commitments, and resolve dependencies.
• Maintain and enforce team agreements, Definition of Ready (DoR), and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Proactively remove impediments and escalate issues when necessary.
• Coordinate cross-team collaboration, release planning, and handoffs.

Stakeholder Communication

• Deliver clear and timely updates on scope, progress, risks, and decisions.
• Lead demos and feedback sessions; manage stakeholder expectations.
• Communicate dependencies and their impacts; align priorities across teams.
• Maintain a streamlined communication plan.

Status Reporting

• Ensure Jira and other tooling are up-to-date and accurate.
• Publish dashboards and reports (e.g., sprint burndown, release burn-up, velocity).
• Provide weekly summaries including accomplishments, plans, risks, and changes.
• Forecast delivery outcomes using empirical data and highlight variances early.

Scrum Guidelines & Coaching

• Uphold Scrum values and timeboxes; prevent common anti-patterns.
• Coach Product Owners on backlog refinement, slicing, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure quality gates are met (DoR/DoD, peer reviews, test coverage).
• Drive continuous improvement through actionable retrospectives.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Scrum Master experience
• 5+ years of experience with Jira and Confluence
• 3+ years of experience with Clarity
• Proven ability to manage multiple agile pods
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Capital markets experience
• Eclipse experience
• Familiarity with Golang

Soft Skills:

• Self-starter with adaptability in dynamic environments
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Detail-oriented and process-driven

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Apex Systems is part of the Commercial Segment of ASGN Incorporated.

NYSE: ASGN

4400 Cox Road

Suite 200

Glen Allen, Virginia 23060

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