Senior Project Manager - Agile Coach / Senior Scrum Master

Capgemini; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to coach and mentor teams in Lean-Agile practices. The successful candidate will facilitate scrum ceremonies, work closely with product owners on backlog management, and ensure effective team communication. Ideal candidates will have 9-13 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree, and a strong understanding of Agile principles. The role promotes servant leadership and empowers self-organizing teams, making it essential to foster collaboration and interaction among team members.

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer

Accommodations for Disabilities

Qualifications

• 9-13 years of relevant experience including 3 years in the role.
• Certified at EM level 1 or higher preferred.
• Experience in Negotiation, Vendor Management, and Risk Management.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and mentoring team in Lean-Agile practices.
• Work with Product Owner on user stories and backlog.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and effective team communication.
• Empower a self-organizing and self-managing team.

Skills

Certified Scrum Master experience

Coaching and guiding skills

Agile project delivery training

Servant leadership promotion

Collaboration and interactive skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Teams

Confluence

Agile Craft

DevOps

Job description

Role responsibilities

• Coaching, training and mentoring the team in Lean-Agile practices, creating an environment of mutual influence by guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices to achieve their goals
• Work closely with the Product Owner to maintain and prioritize the user stories including the product backlog refinement
• Schedules and facilitates scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and retrospectives
• Ensures effective communication within and across teams
• Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing and self-managing team
• Shields the scrum team from outside distractions and interferences and proactively helps the team identify and resolve impediments; shields team from interruptions during the sprint
• Captures and reports team performance metrics (velocity) and overall sprint progress (Burn-Down/Up Charts) using appropriate reporting tools
• Ensures the development teams are working towards sprint goals by practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility
• Ensures cross functional coordination with analysts, developers and testers, is occurring early and often. Recommends improvements and assists in changes to best practices.
• Work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines

Top skills

• 5 years of experience as a Certified/Professional Scrum Master with a strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum concepts and principles
• 5 years of experience as a Coach guiding a team on the use of Agile
• Experience training resources Agile project delivery
• Must promote the value of servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict management, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency.
• Must have an exceptional interactive and collaboration skills as well as experience in building high performing teams.

Nice to have skills

• Active participant and a contributor to the Agile community
• Experience with other Agile approaches such as XP, Kanban, FDD, TDD, SAFe, DAD, Nexus, LeSS and scrum@scale
• Experience with Agile technology practices such as DevOps, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, AWS
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Agile Craft, Rally, VersionOne, Balsamiq, Align and Zephyr and SharePoint
• Sales experience helping to grow and promote a business’ services and offerings

Candidates should be flexible / willing to work across this delivery landscape which includes and not limited to Agile Applications Development, Support and Deployment.

Project Manager Responsibilities

Project Managers take full responsibility for managing a project or program. They normally manage a number of related streams or activities to achieve a desired business result, planned profitability levels, quality standards and highest-level client satisfaction. Project Managers are responsible for the project plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements for the delivery organization. A Project Manager usually has technical expertise in one or more other domains (e.g. a Project Manager with testing skills could perform a test manager function).

You are responsible for leading either a large project or a definable segment of a very large and complex project. Clients may be external or internal. You are responsible for the translation of the client's complex business requirements into formal agreements. For these, you establish specific solutions, applications or processes which ultimately culminate in customer acceptance of the results. This includes working with client team members and executives to identify business requirements and subsequently working with, and leading others, in the initiating, planning, controlling, executing and closing the client's solution. You are responsible for a wide range of process activities beginning with the request for proposal through development, and final delivery.

Required Skills and Experience

• Qualification: 9-13 years (3 years min relevant experience in the role) Bachelor's Degree
• Certification: Manages engagements with complexity on EM level 1 or higher. Is, if possible, certified on this level.
• Should be experienced in Negotiation, Vendor Management, Risk Management, Project Financials, KPI & Reporting
• Should have progression skills in Quality Management

Equal Opportunity Employer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodations for Disabilities

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.