Sr. Scrum Master to continuously promote and support the team's use of Agile and Scrum in a data management environment

Our valued client is looking for a Sr. Scrum Master to continuously promote and support the team's use of Agile and Scrum in a data management environment

Tasks include:

• Develop a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information
• 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

Must have:

• Minimum 3 years' experience as a Scrum Master
• Reliability level security clearance

Nice to have:

• Experience working in: 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.
• Scrum Master Certification (eg: DASM, DASSM, PSM)
• Complex stakeholder management.
• Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile principles, the Scrum Framework and Kanban
• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
• Knowledge of Planview Portfolios AglilePlace
• Bilingual (English/French)
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field
• 3 years' experience in Project Management, Program Management, or Business Analysis