Scrum Master à Montréal
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,
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**
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.
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)