Description of Work: 

• Collaborate with product owners and development leads to shape the backlog of work
• across the project
• Lead the effort to estimate the overall project scope and align it to teams actual
• throughput to deliver within the agreed upon schedule
• Evaluate current prioritization to ensure work maximizes the ability to migrate users,
• employing additional prioritization techniques if necessary
• Facilitate project level events to ensure flow across teams eg: steering, long term
• planning and forecasting, and cross team stand ups
• Facilitate squad level events including but not limited to daily scrum, sprint planning,
• sprint demo (with the Product Owner), and retrospective meetings as needed.
• Lead the effort to track progress of the project against required backlog items,
• updating forecasts as required
• Facilitate the identification and resolution of risks, blockers, and impediments at the
• project level
• Collaborate with teams and leaders to review improvement to the overall system of
• delivery, removing bottlenecks and improving flow of value
• Lead the effort to represent progress, risk, impediments to key stakeholders (through
• steerco and other means) and facilitate decision making as required to maintain
• progress across the project
• Embrace change, influence and coach team members on agile principles and
• practices
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to facilitate increasing maturity and
• effectiveness in the application of Agile principles across the organization.

Required Skills and Experience: 

• 5+ years experience in an Agile environment
• Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development, product management, quality assurance, or business (system) analysis
• Experience applying agile management frameworks and well documented agile techniques (Story Mapping, User Story Writing, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous testing, Continuous Integration/Deployment, etc.)
• 3+ years experience as a Scrum Master or coach – where Scrum principles, practices and theory were diligently applied
• 5+ years working on medium-to-high complexity initiatives that span the organization
• Demonstrated experience being collaborative, team oriented and are comfortable managing relationships across the organization in a wide range of roles and at differing levels across the organization
• A passion for agile delivery and the ability to influence pragmatic change while enabling high performance delivery
• Possesses working knowledge of contemporary agile project management tools such as Jira , Rally, Kanbanize, LeanKit, VersionOne or equivalent
• An understanding of the basic fundamentals of solution delivery (SDLC), including both product management and operational needs 
• Strong experience in communicating complex information and concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive management to support decision making (written and verbal)
• Experience in agile visualization toolsets (Miro, Stories onboard, etc.)
• Professional Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner designation would be an asset
• Financial Services knowledge is considered an asset
• Knowledge of agile delivery in any of the following areas:
• Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Delivery
• Intelligent Process Automation