Scrum Master

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  • Job type

    Contract

  • Location

    CANADA - Remote EST hrs

  • Profession

    Projects & Change Management

  • Industry

    Government & Public Services

  • Pay

    Based on experience
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Must have strong experience as Scrum Master

Scrum Master
Client: Govt. Client
Role: Scrum Master
Job Type: Contract (12 month)
Location: Remote (EST Hrs)
Your New Company
Our client, a very well-known Govt. client looking to hire Scrum Master.

Your New Role:
Client is seeking a Scrum Master Service Provider to support by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver high-user value / high-quality products, allow the team to self-organize, remove impediments, shield the team from outside distractions, and continuously promote and support the team’s use of Agile and Scrum.
The Scrum Master Service Provider is to focus on developing a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information will be a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices, processes, and behaviors for executing effectively and with quality; raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management, continuous improvement, and ceremony facilitation.
Responsibilities:
  • Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
  • Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals, vision, and roadmap.
  • Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team’s goals (for example, using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis, identifying risks etc.).
  • Ability to implement, navigate, communicate and decipher trends using team metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time), DevOps/ IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs

  • Clear obstacles in the team’s path (for example, dependencies on other teams), maintain a list of risks, impediments, and improvements.
  • Facilitate team events (planning sessions, retrospectives, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).
  • Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
  • Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
  • Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
  • Identify ways to strengthen teams’ understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
  • Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams to inspect and adapt. Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
  • Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
  • Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
  • Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.
What You’ll Need:
  • Completed an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in project management, program management or business analysis.
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.
Top Skills Required:
  1. Servant Leadership:
  2. Coaching and facilitation:
  3. Agile knowledge and expertise:
  4. Mindset and behaviors:
Other Skills Required:
  • Experience working in: Technology, Data and information management, financial services; federal crown corporation.
  • Strong knowledge of Data ecosystems, Ei: Knowledge of ITIL, IT Service Management and IT Operations. Knowledge of data analytics platforms such as PowerBI, SAS Viya, Informatica MDM, SQL Server, Azure Databricks, Infosphere, etc.
  • Complex stakeholder management.
  • Proficiency in risk management: ability to identify and assess risk and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile principles, the Scrum Framework and Kanban.
Assets:
  • Scrum Master certification (e.g., DASM, DASSM, PSM)
  • Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
  • Knowledge of Planview Portfolios AgilePlace
  • Fluently bilingual in both official languages, French and English.
What You’ll get in Return
The client is offering a 12-month engagement, with a high likelihood of extension.

Interested?
If you’re available and interested in this role, please reply to Shivangi.gupta@hays.com as soon as you can attaching your updated resume and hourly rate requirement.




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