Scrum Master II
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert Pay Rate: Starting form $70 per hour Location: Toronto, ON Location Type: Hybrid Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core business hours · Contract
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- Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert Pay Rate: Starting form $70 per hour Location: Toronto, ON Location Type: Hybrid Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core business hours
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Original job description
Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private clients, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Scrum Master II to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting form $70 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core business hours
Job Responsibilities:
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Scrum Master II to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting form $70 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core business hours
Job Responsibilities:
- Drives continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity across teams of teams
- Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments to achieve outcomes of work commitments
- Identifies agile team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices to increase team productivity
- Make sure there is no hidden work, ensuring that everything the agile team is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions
- Owns championing of agile practices and ceremonies
- Provides advice and guidance to the agile team, as required, regarding best practices in Scaled Agile
- Ensures team adheres to ‘Work In Progress Limits’ established by the Product Owner, making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helps them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner
- Encourages the Team to look for opportunities to support each other (e.g., focus on higher priority Stories that team members are struggling with)
- Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the Team, promotes team building and ensures team engagement
- Coordinates and facilitates ceremony logistics and ensures all Agile ceremonies/processes are held, and all team members are present and on time in particular, the daily stand-up meeting
- Ensures engagement of appropriate control partners
- Works across the agile team to ensure required assessments, and information are accurate and updated to date
- Undergrad degree required
- 5+ years of Scrum master exp in a scaled agile context
- 5+ years of Worked in a software development context
- Jira
- Scaled agile ceremonies and concepts
- Familiar with different agile systems such as Kanban
- Experience with systems or design thinking
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Champion agile practices and facilitate ceremonies while helping the team manage impediments, work in progress, and Product Backlog visibility. Drive continuous improvement, collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and accurate completion of required assessments and information.
Requirements
An undergraduate degree is required, along with at least five years of Scrum Master experience in a scaled agile context and five years working in software development. Candidates should know Jira, scaled agile ceremonies and concepts, Kanban, and systems or design thinking.
Skills
- Scrum Mastery
- Scaled Agile
- Agile Ceremonies
- Jira
- Kanban
- Software Development
- Continuous Improvement
- Impediment Management
- Product Backlog Management
- Work-in-Progress Limits
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
- Team Facilitation
- Change Management
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Scrum Master
- Scaled Agile
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Jira
- Software Development
- Agile Ceremonies
- Product Backlog
- Work-in-Progress Limits
- Continuous Improvement
- Change Agent
- Impediment Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
- Team Building
- Team Engagement
- Control Partners
- Financial Institution
- Banking