Senior Scrum Master

RBC; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Montreal seeks a Scrum Master to lead agile teams and enhance digital experiences. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of IT project delivery experience, knowledge of Scrum and agile methodologies, and outstanding communication skills. This role involves coaching teams, managing stakeholder communications, and driving project success in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

Competitive compensation

Qualifications

• 3+ years progressive IT project delivery experience managing programs with complex, multi-million dollar budgets.
• Working experience of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress.
• Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes.
• Ensure scrum principles are understood by the team.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Coaching Others

Communication

Conflict Management

Decision Making

Group Problem Solving

Results-Oriented

Staying Focused

Teamwork

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about building exceptional digital experiences and leading cutting-edge solutions? Do you want to lead agile teams that shape the future of financial services? We’re seeking a Scrum Master that can help us build and run awesome teams for CNB Digital out of our Montreal lab. This is your chance to make a significant impact to users while championing agile ways of working and elevating our engineering culture.

The Scrum Master is responsible for leading 1-2 squads towards targeted and scheduled outcomes that deliver on the program objectives. Integrates efforts, continuously assesses and refines approaches and plans, and has accountability of ensuring effective and timely communications to the appropriate parties. You are not afraid of challenging the team on details and be able to think strategically.

What will you do?

• Monitoring and improving the scrum process and project progress; helping solve impediments in the development process

• Coaching the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products

• Fostering self-organization and collaborative scrum team; sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals

• Ensuring scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders; maximizing the performance of the team

• Assist with Program Increment planning, backlog grooming and sprint planning.

• Ensure the squad is effectively delivering against sprint goals, driving out blockers and integrating key components into the overall roadmap

• Work through ambiguity and understand project initiatives, and how to deliver it.

• Manage stakeholders and messaging to Leadership

• High level of general management skills including, but not limited to, leading, negotiating, communicating and team building

• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC and CNB partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 3+ years progressive IT project delivery experience managing programs with high level of value, complexity and multi-million project budgets.

• Working experience of SDLC and Agile delivery methodologies and tools (Jira & Confluence).

• Experience in project delivery, project plan development and management, project governance, scheduling methodology, project metrics, analysis, status reporting, and change management.

• Jira / Confluence

• Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills.

• Professional, approachable and fun!

Nice-to-have

• PMP or CSM certification or equivalent

• Experience with MIS, Planview and RBC project governance.

• Previous RBC or Financial Services experience would be an asset

• Mural / collaborative suites

• Office365

• Hardware / software development exposure

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Coaching Others, Communication, Conflict Management, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Results-Oriented, Staying Focused, Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address: 1 PLACE VILLE MARIE: MONTRÉAL

City: Montréal

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-08-14

Application Deadline: 2025-11-04

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.