Scrum Master

at  Robertson and Company

Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to join our client.
Contract Dates: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Range: $84.22 to $95.94 per hour
Business Hours: Monday to Friday (Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:

• End-to-end facilitation of the Agile processes Drives continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity throughout the project lifecycle.
• Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments and required outcomes of projects for the business.
• Identifies Agile team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices to increase team productivity.
• Makes sure there is no hidden work, ensuring that everything the Agile Team is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions.
• Owns enforcement of the Agile practices and ceremonies.
• Provides advice and guidance to the Agile project team, as required, regarding best practices in Agile project management.
• Manages Work in Progress Limits, 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.
• Encourages the Team to look for opportunities to support each other (e.g., focus on higher priority Stories that team members are struggling with).
• Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the Team, promotes team building and ensures team engagement Coordinates and facilitates ceremony logistics and ensures all Agile ceremonies/processes are held and all team members are present and on time, in particular the daily stand-up meeting and engagement of control partners.
• Works across the Agile team to ensure Agile artifacts and information are accurate and update to date.
• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for our business area.
• Ensures respective policies/practices are well executed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities.
• Drives project execution that is aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives.
• Adheres to enterprise governance to ensure that projects meet all the performance, quality and compliance standards and follows the approved methodology.

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• Risk experience
• Scrum Master experience
• Experience working with executives and senior leadership
• Jira & Confluence

• End-to-end facilitation of the Agile processes Drives continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity throughout the project lifecycle.
• Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments and required outcomes of projects for the business.
• Identifies Agile team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices to increase team productivity.
• Makes sure there is no hidden work, ensuring that everything the Agile Team is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions.
• Owns enforcement of the Agile practices and ceremonies.
• Provides advice and guidance to the Agile project team, as required, regarding best practices in Agile project management.
• Manages Work in Progress Limits, 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.
• Encourages the Team to look for opportunities to support each other (e.g., focus on higher priority Stories that team members are struggling with).
• Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the Team, promotes team building and ensures team engagement Coordinates and facilitates ceremony logistics and ensures all Agile ceremonies/processes are held and all team members are present and on time, in particular the daily stand-up meeting and engagement of control partners.
• Works across the Agile team to ensure Agile artifacts and information are accurate and update to date.
• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for our business area.
• Ensures respective policies/practices are well executed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities.
• Drives project execution that is aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives.
• Adheres to enterprise governance to ensure that projects meet all the performance, quality and compliance standards and follows the approved methodology