Scrum Master - Toronto, Canada - Hire Intellect

Description

Job Title: Scrum Master

Job Type: Contract; Full-Time

Location: Hybrid, Multiple Locations (Canada)

About the Company:

Our client is a Crown corporation providing specialized and personalized financial services to farming operations. Our client offers financing, insurance, software, learning programs, and other business services to producers, agribusiness owners and agri-food entrepreneurs across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 1-2 teams
  
• Remove impediments for the Team and the Product Owner
  
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies and related workshops
  
• Reinforcing Scrum practices
  
• Supporting information management of the planning and completed work
  
• Process Management and Improvement – collaborate with other Scrum Masters and champion on-going process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile and Scrum Master role
  
• Team Building – Ensuring a good working relationship between team members, promote empowerment of the team, ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in their work and in the project.
  

Requirements:

Required Experience

• In-depth knowledge of Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban frameworks and techniques as well as the ability to mentor others in their application of Agile and Scrum
  
• Utilize corporate objectives and priorities to ensure teams are working on the right piece of work
  
• Analyze and resolve a wide range of impediments that are strategic, organizational or technical in nature
  
• Minimum five years of business experience
  
• Scrum Master certification would be an asset
  
• Current or previous Scrum Master experience is required
  
• Experience supporting multiple teams is an asset
  

Required Skills:

• Agile Mindset, Growth Mindset
  
• Conflict facilitation
  
• Fosters communication
  
• Facilitation skills (in-person and remote)
  
• Empathetic listener