Scrum Master
Telesat
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ottawa • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Owns and facilitates the end-to-end agile process within a scale framework, including all ceremonies and reporting for several concurrent project assignments
- Makes sure that all work is assigned and accounted for in a backlog, plan and assignments to protect the team from other competing priorities and distractions
- Facilitates work execution that is aligned to agreed priorities, established cost, timing, deliverable, and scope objectives
- In coordination with Project Managers and Product Owners, engages and collaborates with stakeholders to identify and manage impediments to achieve outcomes of work commitments
- Drives continuous improvement and change to progressively adapt processes to maximize productivity across work streams
- Provides expert advice, guidance and support to agile teams with regards to agile best practices
- Ensures team members adhering to Work prioritized by the Product Owner, making sure the team is not working on too many stories / tasks at once, and helps them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner under consistent work velocity
- Encourages teams to look for opportunities to support each other, sometime going beyond assigned roles and responsibilities
- Ensures a collaborative culture exists within teams and stakeholders, promotes team building and ensures team engagement
- Works across teams to ensure accurate and up to date information flows and that teams are aligned on multiple stream interdependencies
- Prepares timely data driven reporting on progress, work assignments, work produced, velocity and performance, capacity, defect management and open items feeding scale agile reporting, continuous improvement and decision making
Requirements
- Possessing a recognized and relevant agile certification(s) is a definite asset
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Proven experience as Scrum Master within IT, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Experience with multiple concurrent IT-related project assignments is essential
- In-depth experience with Jira/Confluence/MS Office tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong presentation and negotiation skills are also essential
- Proven leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and manage cross-functional project teams. Vast experience in agile methodologies and leading multiple agile teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve project related issues and risks
- Exceptional time management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- The ability to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities, demonstrating exceptional flexibility, adaptivity and resilience in a highly dynamic work environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
agile methodologiesScrum Masterproject managementdata driven reportingdefect managementcapacity managementwork velocitycontinuous improvementrisk managementbacklog management
Soft skills
communication skillsleadership skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillstime managementorganizational skillsflexibilityadaptabilityteam buildingnegotiation skills
Certifications
agile certificationScrum certification