Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master – Data Analytics & Data Engineering

Contract Length: 6 months (strong potential for extension)

Pay Rate: $45-47/hr T4

Location: North York (Hybrid, 1 day onsite)

Your New Company

Our client is a leading Canadian enterprise undergoing significant growth and transformation in data, analytics, and cloud technologies. Their Data Analytics & Data Engineering team is responsible for delivering trusted, scalable, and governed data products that support critical business decisions across digital, ecommerce, marketing, reporting, and enterprise data initiatives.

They are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to help drive Agile delivery excellence across data engineering, analytics engineering, reporting, and cloud data platform teams.

Your New Role

As the Scrum Master, you will support one or more Data Analytics & Data Engineering squads, ensuring the successful delivery of data products, analytics enhancements, platform initiatives, and production support activities.

You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove delivery impediments, manage risks and dependencies, and foster collaboration across business stakeholders, product teams, data engineers, analytics engineers, architects, governance teams, and platform partners.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions
• Supporting the delivery of data pipelines, dashboards, data products, reporting solutions, and platform enhancements
• Coordinating cross-functional dependencies and resolving delivery risks and blockers
• Managing Jira backlogs, sprint boards, RAID logs, release activities, and delivery reporting
• Driving stakeholder communication and executive-facing status updates
• Monitoring delivery metrics including sprint progress, throughput, carryover, blockers, and team health indicators
• Coaching teams on Agile best practices while adapting delivery approaches for data and analytics environments
• Promoting continuous improvement and delivery excellence across squads
• Supporting release readiness, deployment coordination, defect triage, and production support transitions

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Project Coordinator, or similar Agile delivery role
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Scrum certification
• Expert knowledge of Agile principles, Scrum frameworks, Kanban, backlog management, sprint planning, and Agile metrics
• Advanced experience using Jira and Confluence for Agile delivery and stakeholder reporting
• Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and servant leadership skills
• Experience supporting technology, data, analytics, cloud platform, BI, or enterprise reporting teams
• Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, competing priorities, and cross-functional delivery challenges
• Strong documentation, presentation, and executive communication capabilities
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

Preferred experience:

• Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, or Cloud Data Platform environments
• GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Airflow/Cloud Composer, Dataform, Dataplex, SQL, or data quality monitoring concepts
• Retail, ecommerce, digital analytics, marketing analytics, supply chain analytics, or enterprise data ecosystems
• Executive reporting, RAID management, milestone tracking, and delivery governance

What You'll Get in Return

• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale data and analytics initiatives
• Exposure to modern cloud data technologies and platforms
• Collaborative, high-performing Agile environment
• Significant stakeholder visibility and leadership interaction
• Flexible hybrid working environment
• Competitive compensation package
• Opportunity to influence Agile maturity and delivery practices across multiple teams

What You Need to Do Now

If you're an experienced Scrum Master with a track record of supporting data, analytics, or cloud delivery teams and are looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today with your updated resume to be considered for this exciting opportunity.