Family Scrum Master, Data Family - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Description

Family Scrum Master, Data Family - 0004GI

Posting Date:
Aug 31, 2023, 8:14:17 AM

Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type:
Permanent

Schedule:
Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad.

EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you'll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world.

Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide.

You'll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success.

And you'll know that you're making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

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Team & Job Overview

The Family Scrum Master (FSM) is a servant leader who acts as a coach and Senior Scrum Master for the Family.

The FSM ensures the Family stays on course by facilitating the release events and processes and assists the teams in delivering value and driving relentless improvement.

Responsibilities

Manage the flow of value for the Family using tools like the Program Kanban.
Work with Family Product Owner (FPO), Product Owners (PO), Tech Leads (TL), and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
Establish and communicate calendars for iterations and program increments.
Develop Planview budget and forecast monthly.
Review and approve timesheets.
Facilitate Quarterly Planning, Quarterly Planning readiness, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, System Demo readiness, and other relevant.
Familylevel syncs and assist with PO Sync meetings as needed to help the Family manage work.
Synthesize, track, and communicate Quarterly Objectives, risks, dependencies, and key milestones with all stakeholders.
Help manage risks and crossteam dependencies, escalate and track impediments.
Assist tracking execution of features and derive metrics that help the Family make datadriven decisions.
Lead process improvement opportunities resulting from workshops (e.g., Inspect & Adapt workshop).
Participate in quarterly planning communicates vision, roadmap, and prioritized features.
Role model and coach Agile behaviors (as needed).
Working with vendors to support contract needs including onboarding and offboarding of vendors and consultants.
Managing a budget for the overall operation of a team.
Development of and evaluation of responses for RFPs.

Key Skills
Domain Expertise

Strong familiarity with Family's product and domain focus.
Leverage a deep understanding of how to effectively scale Agile (ideally scaling Agile practices within the Family's domain).
Able to illuminate and identify potential domainspecific pitfalls and proactively manage risks.

Individual Skills

Able to communicate effectively across the enterprise, program, and team levels.
Strong facilitation and listening skills, able to present in front of team and management.
Active coach and mentor to teams and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
Able to foster communities of practice and use of engineering and quality practices.

Mindset & Behaviors

Embraces a Lean-Agile mindset and demonstrates competency in Lean-Agile principles and systems thinking.
Assertive, with the confidence to be voice of authority not afraid to do what is best for the team.
Brings a highenergy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around them.
Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace.

Agile/Digital Experience

Deep and effective expertise in software delivery, program management, and stakeholder management.
Strong familiarity with Agile metric techniques (e.g., what to capture, how to interpret result, and how to use them to course correct).
Assess the agility level of the Family and help them improve.

Screening Criteria

Completed an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
710 years of experience in project management, program management or business analysis.
Minimum 3 years' experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Lean, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
Scrum Master certification (e.g., DASM, DASSM).

Assets