Scrum master

Job Description

Scrum Master

• Be an empowering leader and enable your teams to be highly functioning, self-organizing, and continuously improving
• Facilitate key agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and other stakeholders to define sprint goals, refine backlogs, and deliver on roadmaps
• Identify and remove blockers or obstacles that impact team productivity and delivery
• Oversee and manage program releases and implementations
• Foster transparency and collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Create a safe and inclusive team environment, encouraging experimentation, innovation, and open feedback
• Serves as a steward of team culture, environment, and engineering practices
• Comfortable to both encourage and challenge others to align behaviours towards our mindset
• Influence, question, and evaluate processes to determine opportunities for effectiveness
• Support release planning and coordinate with other Scrum Masters for cross-team initiatives
• Advocate for quality and predictability by encouraging test automation, definition of done compliance, and technical excellence
• Ability to come to office at least 3 days a week

Culture & Mindset

• Act as a steward of agile values, practices, and team health
• Comfortable with challenging the status quo and helping others evolve mindsets and behaviors
• Thrive in a fast-moving, team-based environment where experimentation is encouraged
• Passionate about empowering others and facilitating alignment toward shared goals
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, or equivalent agile certification is an asset
• Desire and drive for innovation through problem solving, leveraging resourcefulness as a key skill; have a learning mindset while intrinsically motivated to learn new tools and techniques
• Intermediate to advanced level of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach
• Deep understanding of Agile frameworks, especially Scrum and Kanban
• Strong facilitation skills with a proven ability to lead productive team ceremonies and retrospectives
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence without authority
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and design
• Proficiency in agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar
• Comfortable with continuously changing environments (examples: business priorities, new technologies)
• Exhibit a high degree of understanding risk management
• Leverage and understand the use of analytics to enable day-to-day conversations and decision making

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