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Maarut; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery teams in a fast-paced, enterprise environment in Mississauga. The role focuses on facilitating Scrum ceremonies, coaching teams on Agile best practices, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement across multiple Scrum teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with experience guiding Agile transformations in sectors such as Banking/Financial

Qualifications

• Senior Scrum Master with 11+ years IT experience and proven Agile leadership.
• Experience leading Agile transformations in large, complex environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies and ensure disciplined execution.
• Coach teams on Scrum, Agile practices and Lean principles.
• Partner with Product Owners to refine user stories and backlogs.
• Track velocity, burndown, and other Agile KPIs for delivery visibility.
• Identify and remove impediments to keep sprints on track.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and process changes.
• Communicate project status and risks to stakeholders regularly.
• Support organizational Agile transformation programs and changes.
• Foster collaboration across development, QA, architecture and DevOps.
• Promote Agile maturity and establish best practices across teams.

Skills

Agile Scrum

Agile Methodologies

SAFe Agile

Sprint Planning

User Story Mapping

Release Planning

Agile Metrics Reporting

Project Governance

RAID Management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Rally

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated SeniorScrum Master with 11 years of overall IT experience to lead Agile deliveryteams in a fastpaced and complex enterprise environment The ideal candidatewill be responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies coaching teams on Agilebest practices removing impediments and driving continuous improvement whilecollaborating with stakeholders across business and technology functions

The candidate should possess strong leadership communicationstakeholder management and Agile transformation experience preferably withinBanking Financial Services Insurance Telecom Retail Healthcare or Technologysectors

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including
  
• Sprint Planning
  
• Daily Standups
  
• Sprint Reviews
  
• Sprint Retrospectives
  
• Coach and mentor Agile teams on Scrum principles Agilepractices and Lean methodologies
  
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure welldefined userstories acceptance criteria and prioritized backlogs
  
• Track sprint progress team velocity burndown charts andAgile KPIs
  
• Remove impediments and proactively resolve team blockers
  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives throughretrospectives and process optimization
  
• Manage stakeholder communication and provide regular statusupdates on project delivery
  
• Support Agile transformation programs and organizationalchange initiatives
  
• Facilitate crossfunctional collaboration among developmentQA architecture DevOps and business teams
  
• Monitor project risks dependencies assumptions and issues
  
• Ensure predictable delivery and alignment with businessobjectives
  
• Guide teams in estimating planning and delivering qualitysoftware products
  
• Promote Agile maturity and establish best practices acrossmultiple Scrum teams
  

Requirements

Required Skills

• Agile Scrum
  
• Agile Methodologies
  
• SAFe Agile
  
• Sprint Planning Execution
  
• User Story Mapping
  
• Release Planning
  
• Agile Metrics Reporting
  
• Tools
  
• Jira
  
• Confluence
  
• Rally
  
• Microsoft Project
  
• Power BI
  
• Project Governance
  
• RAID Management
  

Skills

Mandatory Skills: Resource Management, Scope &Change Management