Scrum Master and Business Analyst

Department: Information Technology

Location: Canada-CHQ-Ontario-Toronto

Description

The Align Business Intelligence Team is looking for an experienced Business Analyst \ Scrum Master to join our team. In this role, you will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and development team. You will be in charge of communicating with business teams, analyzing business requirements, providing system requirements to development team. You will support backlog grooming, prioritization, release planning, daily stand-ups and other SCRUM ceremonies. You will closely work with business and other development teams to identify and clarify business requirements.

Being part of the Business Intelligence team is a unique opportunity to help drive a culture of business scalability on time where one-off scripts may have challenged long-term maintainability. The architecture of your solutions is a vital part of your job. Finally, you will help influence a generative learning culture in all that you do. Documentation through code, wikis, influence, and any other method helps drive our culture of openness and giving. You will share success with others and grow through mutually beneficial relationships. Your success is also the success of those around you.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements
• Translate business needs into clear system requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Facilitate all SCRUM ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Champion agile best practices and foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability
• Participate in functional testing of deliverables
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Scrum Master, or in a similar dual-function role
• Proven experience working in Agile/Scrum environments in a software development industry, ideally in Data and Analytics context
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management capabilities
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Familiarity with software development life cycle (SDLC) and technical concepts
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM) is strongly preferred
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
  
  

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Align Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all our practices, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected category. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying, and employment eligibility will be verified as a condition of hire.