DATA Scrum Master

Maarut; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master with 11 years of IT experience to lead Agile delivery teams in a fast-paced, enterprise environment. The role focuses on facilitating ceremonies, coaching teams on Agile best practices, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders across business and technology functions.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and Agile transformation

Qualifications

• Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and leading Agile delivery teams.
• Familiar with large-enterprise Agile transformations and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proficient with Jira, Confluence, Rally and PM tooling.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Coach and mentor Agile teams on Scrum principles, Agile practices and Lean methodologies.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritized backlogs.
• Track sprint progress, team velocity, burndown charts and Agile KPIs.
• Remove impediments and proactively resolve team blockers.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospectives and process optimization.
• Manage stakeholder communication and provide regular status updates on delivery.
• Support Agile transformation programs and organizational change initiatives.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among development, QA, architecture, DevOps and business teams.
• Monitor project risks, dependencies, assumptions and issues.
• Ensure predictable delivery and alignment with business objectives.
• Guide teams in estimating, planning and delivering quality software products.
• Promote Agile maturity and establish best practices across multiple Scrum teams.

Skills

Agile Scrum

Agile Methodologies

SAFe Agile

Sprint Planning

User Story Mapping

Release Planning

Agile Metrics Reporting

Project Governance

RAID Management

Resource Management

Scope & Change Management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Rally

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Scrum Master with 11 years of overall IT experience to lead Agile delivery teams in a fastpaced and complex enterprise environment The ideal candidate will be responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies coaching teams on Agile best practices removing impediments and driving continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders across business and technology functions

The candidate should possess strong leadership communication stakeholder management and Agile transformation experience preferably within Banking Financial Services Insurance Telecom Retail Healthcare or Technology sectors

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including
  
• Sprint Planning
  
• Daily Standups
  
• Sprint Reviews
  
• Sprint Retrospectives
  
• Coach and mentor Agile teams on Scrum principles Agile practices and Lean methodologies
  
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure welldefined user stories acceptance criteria and prioritized backlogs
  
• Track sprint progress team velocity burndown charts and Agile KPIs
  
• Remove impediments and proactively resolve team blockers
  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospectives and process optimization
  
• Manage stakeholder communication and provide regular status updates on project delivery
  
• Support Agile transformation programs and organizational change initiatives
  
• Facilitate crossfunctional collaboration among development QA architecture DevOps and business teams
  
• Monitor project risks dependencies assumptions and issues
  
• Ensure predictable delivery and alignment with business objectives
  
• Guide teams in estimating planning and delivering quality software products
  
• Promote Agile maturity and establish best practices across multiple 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