Description:
We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master for a long-term contract. The ideal candidate would have 6+ years experience in this field.
Key Responsibilities and Job Duties:
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to meet customer’s demand
- Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.
- Support the team during the creation of mandate, creation of epics/user stories/tasks, estimation of effort, adjustment, sprint planning, resource management, budget management
- Access the Agile maturity of the team and coach then to achieve higher levels, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
- Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development.
- Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.
- Maintain the backlog items and release plan
- Supporting and educating the product owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
- Facilitate getting the work done; support the team to remove roadblocks
- Collaborate with vendors and other internal and external parties to deliver solutions
- Create a working environment to facilitate adoption of Scaled Agile
Key Competencies and Experience:
- A Scrum Master Certification, Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in delivering software products in a Scrum Master role.
- Experience as a Scrum Master within enterprise scale SDLC environments.
- Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of Scaled Agile SAFe framework approach and practice.
- Experience with TFS and Jira project management tools and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows.
- Understanding of Project Management Skills
- Hands on Jira, Confluence, Webex, Slack and O365 experience
- Strong technical and managerial leadership, teamwork, negotiating and technical decision-making skills
- Excellent communications skills, written and oral, is required.
Moerae Solutions Incorporated values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. MSi welcomes and encourages people with disabilities and is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that maintains dignity and independence. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment/selection process as a result of disabili
