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 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – once a week on-site
Job ID number: C1251

Brief Description of Duties:

The GWMS – Customer Relationship Management team is looking for a Scrum Master to work with the Canadian Wealth Management Transformation program. The Scrum Master will be supporting various Canadian Wealth Business Transformation streams, with the opportunity to work on Salesforce initiatives to onboarding new business lines.

Typical Day in Role

• Conduct all Agile ceremonies such as User Story Grooming sessions, Sprint Retros, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up
• Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style
• Coach the development team and help lead and insure the is fully adopted and understood
• Inculcate core agile values of focus, commitment, respect, openness and courage into the team ground rules through leading by example
• Assess and coach the team to higher levels of performance, tracking acceleration metrics
• Guide the development team on how to integrate agile ceremonies and values into daily work.
• Encourage an environment where open communication and collaborative problem solving can pave the way for faster removal of any impediments and where the impact of mistakes can be minimized through early detection, making them into learning opportunities

Must Haves: 

• Experience as a Scrum Master with excellent knowledge of scrum techniques
• Working experience with Salesforce Software Development (SDLC)
• Experience with Jira & Confluence
• Previous experience delivering large-scale agile project implementation (Scrum Kanban methodologies)

Nice to Have Skills: 

• FI or Scotiabank experience
• Scrum Master certification CSM is an asset

Soft Skills

• Experience working in Agile environment
• Great communication skills
• Organization
• Leadership
• Problem solving & conflict resolution