Scrum Master

We are looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Scrum Master
Term: 6-month
Location: Toronto – Hybrid, 1-2 days on-site
Job ID number: C1142

Brief description of duties:

• Recently set up a Jira Kanban board to manage BAU and Enhancement work and need someone to assist with this and basically DL’ing (or PM’ing so to speak) the smaller pieces of work (BAU and Enhancements).
• Responsible for ensuring assigned fund services and investment management projects deliver on defined business outcomes
• Manages BAU/Enhancements activities in the portfolio
• Monitors and reports on portfolio activities
• Identifies, reports, and addresses issues that could impact portfolio activities portfolio reporting
• Supports the delivery leader and account manager with budget and resource capacity management and reporting.
• Identifies reports, and addresses issues that could impact portfolio activities timelines, budgets, and/or scope
• Supports the account manager with consolidated management portfolio reporting
• Supports the delivery leader and account manager with budget and resource capacity management and reporting
• Project level business decisions, understanding trade offs and communicating decisions to technology and business partners
• Is a technical advisor by ensuring well considered technology perspectives and expertise are integrated in business decision making processes
• Understand stakeholders and their needs
• Ensure risk is understood by the team
• Change management activities

MUST haves:

• Delivery Leader with PM/BSA or Flow Master Skills.
• Scrum Master experience
• Prior Business Systems Analyst or Project manager experience (both is a major plus)
• Fund service/Investment management project experience
• Excellent communication to both technology and business partners
• Experience delivering on defined business outcomes
• Technical advisor (architecture, development, COE)
• External vendor and stakeholder experience
• SQL Experience
• Jira/Kanban experience

Nice to haves:

• PMP, CFA, Change Management
• Delivery leader experience