Scrum Master- Remote - London, Canada - OEConnection

OEConnection

Verified Company

London, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Since the year 2000, OEC has grown globally to more than 1,000 employees with a double-digit revenue increase nearly every year.

We provide a lively culture, employee rewards and recognition, and the opportunity to develop and implement innovative technology solutions.

Job Summary/Objective
Determines and manages tasks, issues, risks, and action items. Schedules and facilitates scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes. Monitors progress and performance, and helps teams to make improvements. Plans and organizes demos and product/system testing.

Key Responsibilities & Duties (essential to the job)

Ensures that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices. Mentors and motivates the teams to improve processes, facilitates team meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminates team impediments.
As a servant-leader, guide the team towards self-organization and build a collaborative culture that embraces problem solving, health tension and feedback.
Facilitates Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, Retrospective meetings, and other Agile ceremonies.
Keep current with emerging practices and ideas to be able to propose improvements and innovations that would extend the impact of agile practices through the organization.
Ensure the teams maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery.
Ensures Sprint Retrospective Action items are implemented and tracked to closure.
Remove impediments to the scrum team's progress.

Education

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required, with a focus on business administration, information technology, or related discipline.

In the absence of a degree, equivalent work experience directly related to the key responsibilities of the role will be considered as a substitute for the degree.

Experience, Skills and Key Competencies
A minimum of 1 year of experience working as a Scrum Master within cross-functional agile teams.

Must also be able to demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

Indepth knowledge of Agile practices.
Able to effectively manage and mentor development and product teams, and foster a positive and teamwork oriented environment.
Solid project management skills with the ability to effectively suspend and resume work activities as priorities shift.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can easily tailor communications to a specific audience or call to action.
Ability to influence others and build consensus to reach goals.
Comfortable with taking ownership of work and independently completing assignments with moderate supervision.