Delivery Manager / Scrum Master

Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Scrum Master for a full-time permanent position in Montreal. In this role, you will guide teams in agile practices, facilitate scrum events, and resolve conflicts. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in scrum methodologies and a passion for delivering quality solutions in a multi-agile environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a scrum master in a multi-agile team environment.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, project management, or business analysis.
• Ability to train and coach scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams/organization on agile practices.
• Facilitate scrum events and meetings.
• Remove impediments for scrum teams.

Skills

Scrum principles

Kanban principles

Communication

Problem-solving

Conflict-resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or relevant field

Tools

Jira

Job description

Staffmax is hiring for Scrum Master. This is position is a full time permanent position.

Thisrole is responsible for guiding team / organization on use of agile / scrum practices and values, encourage self-organization, assess scrum maturity of the team, help remove impediments, facilitate discussions, decision making and conflict resolution.

Location : Montreal , QC

Hybrid : Must be willing to work from office twice in a week.

Duties :

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team
• Arrange for daily stand-up meetings, facilitate and schedule meetings, demo and follow local scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective, etc.).
• Use Jira as a tool to assist scrum team efficiency.
• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively.
• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.

Basic Qualifications :

• Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban principles
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Passion for leading Scrum teams to continually improve quality and delivery
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• 4+ years as a scrum master (medium-to-large scale initiatives) in a dependent multi-agile team environment, using influence to facilitate outcomes, including practical experience facilitating all key Agile ceremonies and practices.
• 5+ years of experience in software development and / or project management and / or business (system) analysis or other relevant professional experience.