(PRO) Staff Aug - Scrum Master

About Highspring

Highspring is a next-generation consulting and professional services firm. We deliver modern, agile, and forward-thinking solutions to our clients across North America. We work with some of the most innovative companies in banking, insurance, and technology to help them build the future. At Highspring, we believe in empowering our people, fostering leadership, and delivering real business impact.

The Opportunity

Highspring is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support a large-scale insurance product transformation initiative. This engagement focuses on modernizing and enhancing an existing coverage product by aligning it with new standards, updating coverage content, improving the user experience, implementing custom business rules, and integrating optional coverage offerings.

With most APIs and backend services already established, the team will focus on product delivery, execution, and continuous enhancement within an Agile environment.

You will collaborate closely with a Project Lead and a hybrid team of consultants and permanent employees to ensure successful delivery across one or more Agile squads.

What You’ll Do

• Act as Scrum Master for one or more Agile delivery teams.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Promote Agile best practices and help ensure team alignment, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Remove delivery obstacles and support issue resolution across teams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with business and technology stakeholders to maintain project momentum and delivery quality.
• Support delivery activities through occasional project coordination, business analysis, or functional analysis contributions when required.
• Foster strong collaboration between business and IT teams.
• Track and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies in a fast-paced delivery environment.
• Help ensure the team remains focused on meeting project objectives and timelines.

What You Bring to the Table

• Proven experience serving as a Scrum Master within Agile delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Solid understanding of business analysis and functional analysis principles.
• Ability to adapt quickly and contribute beyond traditional Scrum Master responsibilities.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience working in complex IT project environments.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving projects with ambitious delivery timelines.

Core Skills Required

• Scrum Master experience in Agile software delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Business analysis and functional analysis expertise.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Team facilitation and coaching.
• Risk, dependency, and issue management.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Project coordination and delivery support.

Our Stack

While this role is not hands-on technical development, the project includes:

• Modern web and digital customer experiences.
• Existing API and microservices-based architecture.
• Agile product delivery practices.
• Cross-functional business and technology teams.

Why Join Highspring?

• Work alongside experienced consultants and delivery professionals on a high-impact transformation initiative.
• Contribute to a strategic program within the insurance industry.
• Gain exposure to large-scale Agile delivery and modern product transformation.
• Join a collaborative and flexible consulting environment focused on delivering business value.
• Opportunity for contract extension beyond the initial engagement.

Location: Montreal, QC (Hybrid – 2 days onsite per week)

Contract Length: Initial 6-month contract

À propos de Highspring

Highspring est une firme de consultation et de services professionnels de nouvelle génération. Nous offrons des solutions modernes, agiles et innovantes à nos clients partout en Amérique du Nord. Nous collaborons avec certaines des entreprises les plus novatrices des secteurs financiers, de l’assurance et de la technologie afin de les aider à bâtir l’avenir. Chez Highspring, nous valorisons le leadership, le développement de nos talents et la création d’un impact concret pour nos clients.

L’opportunité

Highspring est à la recherche d’un(e) Scrum Master expérimenté(e) pour contribuer à une importante initiative de transformation d’un produit d’assurance.

Le projet vise à moderniser et faire évoluer un produit de couverture existant en l’alignant sur de nouveaux standards, en mettant à jour son contenu, en améliorant l’expérience utilisateur, en implantant des règles d’affaires personnalisées et en intégrant des produits de couverture optionnels.

Comme la majorité des API et des microservices sont déjà en place, l’équipe pourra se concentrer sur la livraison, l’amélioration continue du produit et l’atteinte des objectifs d’affaires.

Vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec le responsable du projet ainsi qu’une équipe hybride composée de consultants et d’employés permanents.

Ce que vous ferez

• Agir à titre de Scrum Master auprès d’une ou plusieurs équipes Agile.
• Animer les cérémonies Agile, incluant la planification des sprints, les rencontres quotidiennes, les revues de sprint et les rétrospectives.
• Promouvoir les meilleures pratiques Agile et favoriser l’amélioration continue.
• Assurer l’alignement, la transparence et l’efficacité des équipes.
• Identifier et éliminer les obstacles pouvant affecter la livraison.
• Collaborer avec les parties prenantes d’affaires et technologiques afin de soutenir l’avancement du projet.
• Participer occasionnellement à des activités de coordination de projet, d’analyse d’affaires ou d’analyse fonctionnelle selon les besoins.
• Favoriser la collaboration entre les équipes d’affaires et les équipes TI.
• Assurer le suivi des risques, dépendances et enjeux de livraison.
• Contribuer au maintien de la qualité et du rythme de livraison dans un environnement dynamique.

Ce que vous apportez à l’équipe

• Expérience démontrée à titre de Scrum Master dans des environnements de livraison Agile.
• Excellentes aptitudes en communication, animation et gestion des parties prenantes.
• Bonne compréhension des concepts d’analyse d’affaires et d’analyse fonctionnelle.
• Expérience de travail auprès d’équipes multidisciplinaires dans des projets TI.
• Capacité à s’adapter et à contribuer au-delà des responsabilités traditionnelles d’un Scrum Master.
• Solides habiletés en résolution de problèmes et en gestion des priorités.
• Approche collaborative et orientée vers les résultats.
• Aisance à évoluer dans des projets à échéanciers serrés et à forte visibilité.

Compétences clés requises

• Expérience en gestion Agile et en animation Scrum.
• Excellente maîtrise des principes et cadres Agile.
• Analyse d’affaires et analyse fonctionnelle.
• Gestion des parties prenantes.
• Facilitation et coaching d’équipes.
• Gestion des risques, dépendances et enjeux.
• Collaboration interfonctionnelle.
• Coordination de projet et soutien à la livraison.

Notre environnement

Bien que ce rôle ne soit pas un poste de développement technique, le projet comprend :

• Des expériences numériques modernes destinées aux utilisateurs.
• Une architecture reposant sur des API et des microservices existants.
• Des pratiques de livraison Agile.
• Une collaboration étroite entre les équipes d’affaires et technologiques.

Pourquoi joindre Highspring?

• Faites partie d’une équipe de consultants et de professionnels de la livraison reconnue pour son expertise.
• Contribuez à une transformation stratégique dans le secteur de l’assurance.
• Développez votre expérience dans des programmes Agile d’envergure.
• Profitez d’un environnement de travail collaboratif, flexible et axé sur les résultats.
• Bénéficiez d’un fort potentiel de prolongation après la durée initiale du mandat.

Lieu : Montréal, QC (mode hybride – 2 jours par semaine au bureau)

Durée du mandat : 6 mois initialement

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• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
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