Scrum Master

Dawninfotek; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dawn InfoTek Inc. is seeking a seasoned Scrum Master to join our client’s agile teams in a hybrid Toronto-based role.

You will guide daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and other ceremonies, fostering trust and collaboration across multi-workstream projects in a banking/financial services context. The ideal candidate has 7+ years as a Scrum Master, strong experience with JIRA and Confluence, a CSM and Agile certification, and a proven ability to coach teams toward an Agile

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master.
• 7+ years’ experience with PM tools: JIRA, Confluence.
• CSM certification and Agile certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and other agile ceremonies.
• Coach team members, identify risks and impediments, and engage stakeholders to resolve blockers.
• Ensure solutions meet platform criteria and collaborate with SMEs and dev leads on AI capabilities.
• Facilitate iteration planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Create a forum for vision, goals, and Product Backlog items among the team.
• Identify and mitigate issues to improve productivity and deliverable quality.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal

Adaptability

Action and results oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree

CSM/Agile certifications

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Scrum Master

Dawn InfoTekInc. is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.

We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of Scrum Master to join our dynamic team for our client, one of the major banks.

Hybrid: 2 days in-office

Contract Duration: 6 months with extension

Job Summary:

Typical Day in Role:

• Working in an agile environment, leading daily standups, conducting sprint planning, backlog grooming sessions, agile ceremonies; establishing good relationships and trust with the teams, coaching team members, calling out risks, impediments, blockers, flagging those items; engaging necessary people to resolve impediments
• Ensuring that the solution put forth meets the criteria of the platform, reviewing the AI capabilities and working with SMEs and dev leads for AI capabilities
• Ensure the team enacts the agile principles, values, and framework.
• Coach the development team and help lead and ensure the agile mindset is fully adopted and understood.
• Engage with the team and technical SMEs to identify technical risks and develop approaches to remediate.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies including iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team.
• Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with particular emphasis on the timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution.
• Facilitate identifying and enacting improvement strategies to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 7+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master
• 7+ years’ experience with PM tools: JIRA, Confluence
• Experience working with multi-workstream, complex projects
• CSM certification
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience from FI/Banking
• Experience with cloud technology implementations
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform implementations
• Agile coaching experience
• Reporting experience (Agile team KPIs, metrics)

Soft Skills Required:

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Adaptability
• Action and results oriented

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree
• CSM /Agile certifications