Senior Agile Delivery Advisor

at  OLG

95,200.00 - 142,800.00 CAD

Job Description:
Senior Agile Delivery Advisor
GAME ON – OLG needs you
We’ve said GAME ON, and we mean it – OLG is rapidly transforming its organization to better serve Ontarians by delivering great gaming experiences through our digital, retail lottery, and land-based gaming channels. Over the course of fiscal 2022-23, OLG delivered a record $2.5 billion in net profit to the Province of Ontario. OLG is now expanding our horizons even further, with a new strategic direction, to become a world class gaming entertainment leader with a globally admired digital platform.
We are ready to take this game to the next level and need a passionate Senior Agile Delivery Advisor to be accountable for coordinating the delivery of agile based development for OLG. This includes helping teams develop new products and features by working closely with the product squads including the Technology Product Owners, Technical Leads, and Business Analysts. The Scrum Master plays a critical role in facilitating the use of Agile methodologies and practices ensuring teams remain engaged and successful in the delivery of product solutions..

Reporting to the Delivery Enablement Lead, you will be empowered to:

• Promote and support the product squads by helping team members understand the theory, practices, rules, and values of Scrum and other agile frameworks for delivery
• Understand the work of development teams, ensuring teams are cross functional and empowered to report on their progress while helping to address any impediments that are impacting them
• Facilitate regular scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo meetings to discuss team accomplishments, plan daily work, identify and address any obstacles faced by the team
• Develop, Track and report metrics & KPIs while ensuring teams create, maintain, and share knowledge artifacts
• Drive continuous improvement by acting as a change agent
• Provide understanding of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e., , Agile, SAFe iterative), and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience
• Lead and implement agile ceremonies, processes, practices, and tools to create simple, consistent, sustainable, efficient and flexible ways of working, coaching teams to become self-sufficient and self-organized
• Act as a communication bridge between the Product Squads to ensure product management and development teams are regularly sharing information.
• Actively works to seek out impediments blocking the teams progress and works cross functionally to remove impediments

Cross-Functional Relationships

• The role works in close partnership with Product Owners, , Testers,, Business Analysts, Environment Engineers,, and Technical Leads to ensure timely delivery of products
• The role interacts regularly with product management and other stakeholders to help clear roadblocks to the team’s progress
• Partners with other scrum masters, Release teams in the planning and deployment of releases across the platform
• The role works in close partnership with governance, application and testing standards leaders to ensure alignment to OLG standards, methods and practices all the while ensuring compliance to audit requirements