RQ07432 Scrum Master

This is a contract position for a Scrum Master - Senior for our public sector client.

Work location : Downtown Toronto

Duration : 10 Months, potential extension

7.25 hours / day

This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)

Advantages

Good compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.

Responsibilities

o Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.

o Acts as a central point of communication, ensuring that the BAs collaborate seamlessly with internal / external stakeholders and development teams.

o Identifies and remove impediments that could hinder the team's progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.

o Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.

o Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice.

o Fosters effective communication between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of goals and requirements.

o Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input

o 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.

o Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines.

o Lead presentations / demonstrations of solution design and build for consultation group and stakeholders

o Review the user flows and user stories, and ensure they meet the overall product vision and consistency across features

o Support QA, Architecture, and Technical activities to facilitate quality and enterprise standards are met

o Support agile practices and encourage the improvement of service

o Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle working closely with product owner, including :

• Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements
• Defining the product vision
• Ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals

o Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes

o Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.

o Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to management and stakeholders

o Conduct discovery, cost benefit analysis and prototyping

o Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact

o Work closely with business and IT teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources

o Identifies dependencies with other teams and determines how to manage those dependencies without impacting the progress of the team.

Qualifications

• Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• 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.
• Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
• 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
• Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to; reports, reviews, assessments

Summary

If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!

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In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary / gender non-conforming;

Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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