Project Management - Scrum Master – Expert
Location: Toronto, ON- Hybrid
Pay Rate: $82-$97/hr
Contract Length: 12 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Project Management - Scrum Master – Expert for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
- Recommend improvements and assist in changes to recommended practices
- Assist with internal and external communication for transparency of information
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Ensuring disciplined software development approach: continuous integration, refactoring practices, peer reviews, continuous QA, and sustainable pace as standard
- Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology to create a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters
- Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required to respond to emerging requirements and risks
- Fully track project progress, remove impediments, identify risks and provide resolutions for project issues
- Facilitate low complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with internal Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning
- Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet LOB stakeholders’ needs and expectations
- Manage risks to delivery
- Track and report financials for the team
- Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment
- Communicate cross functionally, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes
- Report team progress and accomplishment up and across
- Facilitates status updates, product demos and retrospectives
Knowledge & Experience:- 10+ years experience as a Scrum Master
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
- Industry Certified Scrum Master with project management and hands-on Scrum Master experience
- Certified Agile Practitioner or equivalent
- Thorough understanding of agile software development lifecycle methodologies, values, and procedures
- Multiple years’ experience working with an agile methodology during a large scale, complex new development project for a large enterprise
- Experience in software development and/or project management and/or business (system) analysis or other relevant professional experience
- Exposure to Project/Program delivery in Agile and/or Waterfall environment
- Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis
- Ability to apply RBC Agile Management Framework and well documented Agile techniques (User Stories, Burndown techniques, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous testing, etc.)
- SAFe experience is an asset
Skills & Competencies:- Agile Leadership: Assuming a leadership role in enabling an agile work environment
- Business Communication: Professionally conveying and receiving information, thoughts and emotions using a variety of m