Scrum Master Senior
IntactCanada12 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology
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Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.
Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.
Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.
As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.
Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.
About The Role
We are seeking a Scrum Master to join our Data Management Team. As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating agile process, helping our team stay focused, efficient and continuously improving. You will work closely with product owners, developers and other stakeholders to ensure that Sprint goals are met, and that Agile principles and scrum practices are followed to deliver high quality products.
You will also foster an environment of collaboration, transparency and continuous learning, enabling our teams to meet business objectives while promoting Agile methodologies. Additionally, you will be working with squads that have many external dependencies. Requiring you to manage coordination, communication, and delivery across different teams, systems, and organizations.
Key Responsibilities
We are an equal opportunity employer
At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.
We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.
We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.
If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.
Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.
If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.
Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.
Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
- Salary range (but not limited to):
- Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):
As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.
Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.
About The Role
We are seeking a Scrum Master to join our Data Management Team. As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating agile process, helping our team stay focused, efficient and continuously improving. You will work closely with product owners, developers and other stakeholders to ensure that Sprint goals are met, and that Agile principles and scrum practices are followed to deliver high quality products.
You will also foster an environment of collaboration, transparency and continuous learning, enabling our teams to meet business objectives while promoting Agile methodologies. Additionally, you will be working with squads that have many external dependencies. Requiring you to manage coordination, communication, and delivery across different teams, systems, and organizations.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate Scrum events: Guide and facilitate daily stand ups, Sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and Sprint reviews.
- Coach agile practices: Mentor and coach the development team on Agile principles and Scrum practices. Help foster a culture of self organization, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Manage external dependencies: Work closely with teams and external stakeholders to identify, track and manage dependencies that affect the squads work. Ensure that external teams and vendors are aligned with Sprint goals and timelines.
- Remove impediments: Identify and remove obstacles that may impede the teams progress. Work with internal and external stakeholders. To resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
- Team support: Create an environment of psychological safety where team members feel comfortable raising issues, asking questions, and contributing to discussions.
- Collaboration with Product Owner: Support the Product Owner and managing the Product Backlog, ensuring user stories are well defined and prioritized according to the business value.
- Progress Tracking: Help track and report on the teams progress using agile metrics. Ensure Sprint goals are achieved and communicate any deviations to stakeholders.
- Escalation management act as a point of escalation for issues or delays caused by external dependencies. Working proactively to resolve challenges before they impact delivery timelines.
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master. At least 4-5 years of experience as a scrum master or an agile coaching role within a software development environment. Have experience leading multiple squads.
- Strong knowledge of agile / scrum methodology: A deep understanding about your principles come ceremonies rules.
- Experience with external dependencies: Demonstrated experience managing teams that rely on external partners, systems, vendors. Comfortable coordinating across various stakeholders to keep progress on track
- Facilitation skills: Strong facilitation and communication skills with the ability to engage teams, Dr. discussions and resolve conflicts constructively.
- Personal skills: Verbal and written communication. Collaborating across cross functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Stakeholder management: Experience working with both. Ensuring alignment on goals and progress.
- Working knowledge, or exposure to data security practices, and data privacy regulations, Data Governance, Data Catalog.
- Security mindset. Ability to help teams incorporate security considerations into agile processes and product development.
- Experience and knowledge in the insurance field would be preferred
We are an equal opportunity employer
At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.
We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.
We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.
If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.
Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.
If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.
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