Location : Markham, Ontario-Canada, (office, 3 days a week Tue & Wed mandatory & 1 day flexible)
Hire Mode : Full Time Permanent
Primary Skills : PSM / CSM, Scrum / Kanban
Secondary Skills Insurance and Data Domain knowledge preferred
Job Description
As a Scrum Master, Guide the team to follow the values and principles of Agile and apply the appropriate Agile framework and techniques and create an environment of self-organisation.
Teach and Coach the team and organisation in Agile theory and software engineering techniques.
Support and educate Product Owners, especially with respect to refining and maintaining a product
backlog.
Ensure both internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information on team activities.
Collect and communicate all necessary metrics and propose new ones in the spirit of constant
empiricism.
Optimise integrated change across assigned technology platform. Ensure quality is driven into all
aspects of the delivery lifecycle and defects are driven out as early as possible.
Perform gap analysis of overall technology platform capabilities and tool and develop a roadmap for
improvement
Support value stream mapping carried out by Agile Delivery Lead
Skills / Experience
A solid understanding of Agile values and principles.
A good overall knowledge of a range of Agile frameworks
Insurance business knowledge.
Good stakeholder management skills and an ability to inspire individuals and teams to change and
improve.
Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes : Test