Scrum Master II

Introduction:

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.

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

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• Undergrad degreerequired

• 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