Scrum Master II

Description de Poste

Contract / Fulltime : Full Time

Location : Remote / Onsite (Montreal) - Onsite Montreal

Bill rate : Salary $120k range

Bilingual French / English

What will you do?

• Monitoring and improving the scrum process and project progress; helping solve impediments in the development process.
• Coaching the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
• Fostering self-organization and collaborative scrum team; sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
• Ensuring scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders; maximizing the performance of the team.
• Report and escalate impediments to the Release Train Engineer at SoS.
• Assist with Program Increment planning, backlog grooming and sprint planning.
• Ensure the squad is effectively delivering against sprint goals, driving out blockers and integrating key components into the overall roadmap.
• Work through ambiguity and understand project initiatives, and how to deliver it.

Manage stakeholders and messaging to Leadership

• High level of general management skills including, but not limited to, leading, negotiating, communicating and team building.
• 3+ years progressive IT project delivery experience managing programs with high level of value, complexity and multi-million project budgets.
• Working experience of SDLC and Agile delivery methodologies and tools (Jira & Confluence).
• Experience in project delivery, project plan development and management, project governance, scheduling methodology, project metrics, analysis, status reporting, and change management.

Jira / Confluence

• Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-have

• PMP or CSM certification or equivalent.
• Experience with MIS, Planview and project governance.
• Previous Financial Services experience would be an asset.
• Mural / collaborative suites.
• Office365.
• Hardware / software development exposure.