Scrum Master

Title: Scrum Master

Duration: 12+ months Contract

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite 4 days, 1 day work from home)

Candidate profile details:

• Degree/Certifications Required: Post Secondary, CSM (must have) Scaled Agile Practitioner (nice to have)
• Years of Overall Experience: 0-2 years
• Preferred Candidate Background: Banking or financial institution, IT project experience, software solution/development projects
• How will performance be measured: hitting deliverables, making sure impediments and risk are going to the right forum, hitting deadlines/timelines
• Selling Points of Position (CVP): Gaining experience with large enterprise solutions, gaining knowledge of the wealth space

Summary of day-to-day responsibilities:

Scrum Master Roles and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: Lead and guide the team through daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and time-boxed.
• Remove impediments: Proactively identify and eliminate obstacles, conflicts, and issues that hinder the team's progress, coordinating with external groups or stakeholders as needed.
• Coach and mentor: Guide the team in adopting and practicing Agile principles and Scrum values, helping them develop self-management and continuous improvement skills.
• Shield the team: Protect the team from external interference and distractions to allow them to focus on delivering value during the sprint.
• Foster collaboration: Promote effective communication and collaboration within the team and with stakeholders, ensuring a healthy and productive environment.
• Promote transparency: Encourage the team to track relevant metrics and make informed decisions to improve their processes.

Additionally, the following items.

• Leading PI Planning for the teams.
• Keeping teams and partners on track during execution.
• Coaching Agile Teams.
• Improving workflow between teams.
• Driving improvements in the teams.
• Managing alignment between the business and various partner groups.

Must-have hard skills:

1.) Risk, impediment and dependency management

2.) CSM certification (any scrum master cert works)

3.) Program Increment planning – quarterly planning etc.

Soft skills:

1.) Strong communication skills

2.) Detail oriented

3.) Strong facilitator (facilitating scrum ceremonies)

Nice-To-Have

1.) Scaled Agile certification

2.) Banking or financial institution experience

3.) Release Train Engineer experience (knowledge)

4.) Project Management experience