Scrum Master - Junior

LanceSoft Inc; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Scrum Master for a hybrid role in Toronto. The candidate will drive the implementation of Agile methodologies across teams, facilitate scrum ceremonies, and ensure effective backlog management using Azure. Ideal applicants will have strong leadership skills and extensive Agile experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in Scrum Master role for at least 5+ years.
• Proficient with Azure for managing backlogs and sprints.
• Experience leading project teams in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups and sprint reviews.
• Ensure the delivery team practices Agile principles.
• Communicate effectively to manage project tasks and updates.

Skills

Scrum Master certification

Agile project management

Strong communication skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Backlog refinement

Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies

Tools

Azure DevOps

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Visio

Job description

Position: Scrum Master
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 190 Days Contract + Possible Extension

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5+ year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices.
• Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking and task definition.
• Experience working with development products and teams.
• Ability to rapidly prioritize competing requirements.
• Act as a champion of the Scrum framework both internally and external to the team work across multiple scrum teams and help to coordinate efforts
• Ensure the delivery team practices the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Assist team with forecasting their Sprint Goals through story selection, task definition
• Faciliate Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Work with Product Owner for Backlog Refinement
• Create queries to create report from Azure Devops
• Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs.
• Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
• Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
• Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
• Identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, mitigating and communicating project risks throughout project lifecycle.
• Making recommendations based on the technical evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications.
• Ensuring documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members.
• Assisting in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
• Communicating effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
• Working collaboratively to resolve inter dependencies between other projects/work streams
• Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects.
• Skills and Experience Requirements:
• Experience in running Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Experience working with the Product Owner to for Backlog Refinement
• Proficient with Azure or Azure certified
• Experience in generating burn-down report across various projects using Azure
• Good Java and Oracle technical knowledge as well as IBM's BPM
• Experience leading technical teams
• Direct experience in the creation of project schedules, project plans, issue & risk logs, status reports, and associated artefacts (Change Management Plan, Risk Management Plan, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous Application Development projects involving cross-functional product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints
• Demonstrated experience managing projects with external and internal clients and external vendors
• Good understanding of both the traditional System Development Life Cycle as well as the
• Agile development concepts
• Strong technical and business aptitude
• Persistent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
• Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
• Project rescue/project triage experience is an asset
• Previous government experience is an asset, but not mandatory

Scrum/Agile experience - 45%

• Scrum Master certified and/or demonstrated experience in managing Scrum projects in sprints
• Experience in working on Agile developed projects
• Scrum Ceremonies including (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
• Demonstrated experience using Azure to manage backlogs and sprints
• Defect management using Azure on active sprints

Technical and Project Management Skills - 35%

• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of Java and Oracle projects
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of IBM's BPM
• Experience managing projects on Azure with continuous delivery.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Office and Visio
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous Application Development projects involving cross-functional product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints

Leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and Presentation skills - 15%

• Demonstrated prior experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight Project deadlines

Public Sector Experience - 5%

• Demonstrated experience with the MOE Modernization of Approvals platform, or similar
• SOA-based Public Sector modernization initiatives

Must Have Requirements:

• Scrum Master certified
• Experience in working on Agile developed projects
• Demonstrated experience using Azure to manage backlogs and sprints
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of Java and Oracle projects
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of IBM's BPM
• Demonstrated prior experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment