Lead Scrum Master (Store Systems)

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Our family of 134,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers.

Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country.

With over 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Lead Scrum Master who will support the projects related to our store systems.

This role can be based out of one our main offices including : Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; or Calgary, AB.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

Application Lifecycle - Coordinate integration, security, privacy, infrastructure, testing requests and timelines across product deliverables.

Support Solution Mgr. and Tech lead on required system lifecycle upgrade and decommission planning and coordination.

Application Enhancements - Effectively manage backlog items into work packages / sprints and manage Jira item maintenance.

Manage sprint deployment timelines and status for the backlog. Be the go-to person to help remove project or backlog blockers

• Project Planning - For Mid-Complex Projects, partner with Business Lead to create and manage project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, timelines, resource planning and budgets.
• Cross team / functional coordination - Coordinate and align the efforts of multiple Scrum Masters and Business stakeholders.

This can involve project management activities ensuring cross-team dependencies, testing and integrations are managed effectively and that the collective work meets organizational goals.

• Track and Communicate Project Progress - Provide regular, clear and concise visibility to enhancement / project status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics) on a standard cadence through status reporting and project / resource reviews.
• Risk and Issue Management - Manage and appropriately escalate project / product issues and key decision points (KDPs).

Facilitate solutions to technical, functional, process and business problems.

Adaptability - Be flexible and adaptive, knowing when to apply agile practices and when to use traditional project management techniques.

What you have to offer :

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
• 8 years of industry experience, with 3+ years in a Scrum / Project Lead role.
• Professional certification preferred (CSM, PMP etc).
• Experience in application development lifecycle, support and delivery.
• Experience in working with outsourced service providers and vendor management.
• Retail industry experience preferred.

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