Scrum Master

Position : Scrum Master - Senior

Location : Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration : Business Days + Possible Extension

Job Description :

• Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
• Acts as a central point of communication, ensuring that the Client collaborate seamlessly with internal / external stakeholders and development teams.
• Identifies and remove impediments that could hinder the team's progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input.
• Defines, manages, and enforces scrum process and methodology.
• Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.
• Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines.
• Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others.
• Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
• Experience creating cost benefit analyses.
• Experience creating process & service measures and indicators.
• Experience designing services and business processes for new business areas.
• Experience creating processes, swim lanes etc according to industry standard techniques and methodologies.
• Experience facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework / specifications.
• Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems, and provides project effectiveness.
• Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
• Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope, schedule, and resources)
• Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates.
• Track project level Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager.
• Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective.
• Experience providing on boarding and orientation of new staff / project resources.
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning.

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