Scrum Master/project Manager - Toronto, Canada - vTech Solution

vTech Solution
vTech Solution
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Toronto, Canada

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Job Title:
Scrum Master/Project Manager

Location:
Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ months (with possible extension)

Responsibilities:


  • Engaging the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
  • Supporting technical teams by reviewing their work and resolving day to day issues
  • Demonstrated experience leading Quality Assurance teams and Architecture domain including coordinating Enterprise Architecture Governance, feedback cycle and approvals
  • Supports the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success
  • Schedules and facilitates agile / scrum events such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
  • Work closely with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals, and adhere to quality standards
  • Providing inputs to the Cluster Staff in the development, maintenance and effectively execution of the integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
  • Supports the Cluster staff in developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
  • Provide inputs for identifying resource requirements and providing project resources/cost estimates
  • Facilitates in the definition, clarification of roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources
  • Assist in resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs
  • Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components
  • Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
  • Assist in managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
  • Facilitating communications and controlling the scope, time and cost of the project to team members, clients and other stakeholders
  • Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
  • Provides project status updates to support portfolio level reporting to Cluster staff and management for multistakeholders at senior executive levels
  • Identifies, analyses, prioritizes and communicates project risks for decision makers
  • Collaborates with product managers and product owners on backlog refinement/grooming
  • Provides recommendations and mitigation strategies based on the detailed evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications
  • Ensures documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members
  • Assists in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
  • Communicates effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
  • Collaborates with Cluster staff, management, project resources and clients to resolve interdependencies between other projects/workstreams
  • Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

  • Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
  • All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
  • Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Agile Project Management Experience

  • 3+ years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
  • 3+ years facilitating and leading ceremonies including daily standups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping
  • Experience planning and managing quality assurance activities including leading and supervising test team
  • Demonstrated experience using issue management tools such as Jira to manage backlogs and sprints
  • Experience creating and managing project schedules, project plans, issue/risk logs, status reports and other project management artefacts
  • Experience managing project resources by aligning skills/experience to project tasks
  • Nice to have experience with multiple Siebel Public Sector project concurrently
  • Experience planning and managing OPS project gating, architecture and governance checkpoints/requirements

Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills

  • Demonstrated experience leading proje
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