Job Description

Position: Scrum Master
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 190 Days Contract + Possible Extension
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5+ year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices.
• Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking and task definition.
• Experience working with development products and teams.
• Ability to rapidly prioritize competing requirements.
• Act as a champion of the Scrum framework both internally and external to the team work across multiple scrum teams and help to coordinate efforts
• Ensure the delivery team practices the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Assist team with forecasting their Sprint Goals through story selection, task definition
• Faciliate Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Work with Product Owner for Backlog Refinement
• Create queries to create report from Azure Devops
• Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs.
• Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
• Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
• Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
• Identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, mitigating and communicating project risks throughout project lifecycle.
• Making recommendations based on the technical evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications.
• Ensuring documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members.
• Assisting in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
• Communicating effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
• Working collaboratively to resolve inter dependencies between other projects/work streams
• Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects.
• Skills and Experience Requirements:
• Experience in running Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Experience working with the Product Owner to for Backlog Refinement
• Proficient with Azure or Azure certified
• Experience in generating burn-down report across various projects using Azure
• Good Java and Oracle technical knowledge as well as IBM's BPM
• Experience leading technical teams
• Direct experience in the creation of project schedules, project plans, issue & risk logs, status reports, and associated artefacts (Change Management Plan, Risk Management Plan, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous Application Development projects involving cross-functional product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints
• Demonstrated experience managing projects with external and internal clients and external vendors
• Good understanding of both the traditional System Development Life Cycle as well as the
• Agile development concepts
• Strong technical and business aptitude
• Persistent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
• Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
• Project rescue/project triage experience is an asset
• Previous government experience is an asset, but not mandatory

Scrum/Agile experience - 45%

• Scrum Master certified and/or demonstrated experience in managing Scrum projects in sprints
• Experience in working on Agile developed projects
• Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Demonstrated experience using Azure to manage backlogs and sprints
• Defect management using Azure on active sprints

Technical and Project Management Skills - 35%

• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of Java and Oracle projects
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of IBM's BPM
• Experience managing projects on Azure with continuous delivery.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Office and Visio
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous Application Development projects involving cross-functional product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints

Leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and Presentation skills - 15%

• Demonstrated prior experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight Project deadlines

Public Sector Experience - 5%

• Demonstrated experience with the MOE Modernization of Approvals platform, or similar
• SOA-based Public Sector modernization initiatives

Must Have Requirements:

• Scrum Master certified
• Experience in working on Agile developed projects
• Demonstrated experience using Azure to manage backlogs and sprints
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of Java and Oracle projects
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of IBM's BPM
• Demonstrated prior experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment

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