Agile Lead - Toronto, Canada - Northbridge Financial Corporation

Northbridge Financial Corporation

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

We're Northbridge Financial. We're proud to be 100% Canadian and owned by Fairfax Financial. We serve through our Northbridge Insurance, Federated Insurance, and TruShield Insurance brands. We have a reputation for being one of Canada's leading commercial property and casualty insurance company.

Our employees are dedicated to understanding the needs of our customers and we go above and beyond to help Canadian businesses have a safer and brighter future.

We're a company of passionate people who put people first.

Do you want to join a team that believes in working hard - and having fun at work - all while making a difference? Look no further than Northbridge.

Agile Lead

Location:
Toronto, Ont
We are looking for an Agile Lead Master that can build high functioning teams in a complex IT environment.

The incumbent will gain a strong understanding about the product that the team is supporting as well as establish a good working relationship with the Product Owner and the Agile Managers that support the running of the team.

You are highly experienced in managing a Scrum team, an expert in understanding and executing the general principles and framework of Agile development and Scrum and can adapt and improve those principles where necessary to suit this organization.

The key to success is a team that runs smoothly with a good velocity whilst constantly focusing on delivering the highest business value possible.

You're great at:

Leading, coaching, and influencing the team to use the Scrum framework
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution, valuing facetoface communication with business leaders, IT leaders, project team members and scrum team.
Helping the team to build quality high business value items at a sustainable pace.
Utilizing inspection and adaption to increase team velocity where possible.
Ability to create dashboards/information radiators with Azure DevOps and establish best practices for the EPMO to use across all Agile projects.
Supporting the Product Owner on grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Being open to changing business priorities whilst ensuring that any changes are driven by achieving greater business value
Deep understanding of metrics created by the tool such as burndown or burnup charts, cumulative flow diagrams, velocity, lead time etc. and being able to use the metrics to drive better and consistent results
Coaching both the business and the team on the benefits of a sustainable pace while integrating both project and business as usual work
Guiding the team on effective Agile estimation and release planning

You have:

Certified Scrum Master preferably Advanced CSM or PSM II
Bachelor's Degree, preferably in computer science or engineering
Experienced creating dashboards and queries in Azure DevOps or a similar agile management software tool with track record of using the data to improve results
Experience working with 3rd party technology vendors
Proven results of working with a Scrum team to establish and deliver the highest business value on a consistent basis within deadlines
Experience with DevOps and CI/CD

We're great at putting you first by:

You get to work from the office and at home (50/50), so you can manage both worlds with the ease and flexibility you need.
We offer competitive salaries and support your financial health through our employee share purchase plan, pension plans, RRSP, discounts on staff insurance, and more
We help you prioritize your wellbeing from day one through flexible health benefits, early leave days, wellness programs, rewards, and recognition programs.
We are invested in helping you grow in your career through education assistance, internal mobility, and mentoring programs.
We care about the community and support the causes you believe in with donation matching and team volunteer days.

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At Northbridge Financial we embrace and celebrate you and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all No matter who you are or what makes you unique, we welcome you.

Please let us know how we can assist or accommodate you during the selection process.