Scrum Master - Langley, Canada - First West Credit Union

First West Credit Union

Verified Company

Langley, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

beBee Recruiter

Description

We are currently seeking a Scrum Master to join our team.

The Scrum Master is responsible for coaching squads to create and deliver quality solutions and services at their optimal pace, including identifying and collaboratively executing on continuous improvement opportunities, while continually reflecting to the squad progress that has been made.

The Scrum Master ensures well facilitated ceremonies, stakeholder meetings, vendor relationships and delivery through a combination of reinforcing ceremony structure/intent/efficiency and enabling common understanding and commitment while creatively empowering squad accountability towards action.

Here's what would be included as a part of your typical day
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Leadership & Coaching: Guides and teaches the squad and organization how to use scrum and agile practices and methodologies. Coaches the squad and Centres of Expertise to exemplify First West agile enterprise principles and practices in their day-to-day work, ensuring the theory, practices, rules, and values of agile are being followed. Provides daily agile coaching to the squad and facilitates a transparent and adaptive environment. Ensures daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and planning meetings are well facilitated in a way that encourages full engagement of the squad. Establishes an agile mindset within the squad through conversations and coaching related to self-management and cross functionality.
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Servant Leadership & Managing Relationships:Removes barriers to the squad's success, supporting the Product Owner, and ensures the squad's delivery of value is highly visible to all stakeholders. Has hands on involvement in the product and backlog planning. Understands business vision and engages beyond process e.g. in solution design, customer feedback and testing. Fosters close cooperation, cross-training, and mutual support across all squad members. Facilitates communication and collaboration inside and outside of the squad. Shields the squad from external interference and ensures the squad is fully functional and productive.
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Managing Impediments:Consistently visualizes all impediments, dependencies, and risks to be able to identify trends and opportunities for continuous improvement and capture and assign accountability for action plans to remove, mitigate or manage impediments, dependencies and risks. Communicate to the product owner, pod lead and organization any blockers that are impacting or may impact a squad's ability to deliver. Actively manage and remove dependencies on behalf of the squad and captures actions taken in the appropriate PBIs. Proactively reach out to COEs to secure ceremony participation.
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Metrics & Reporting:Keeps track of delivery metrics and progress on key deliverables and objectives to establish squad performance baselines, e.g. velocity, throughput, and cycle time. Reflect delivery performance to the squad and identify areas for improvement. Inform iteration/sprint planning to optimize available capacity for delivery and support quarterly goal commitments through effective estimation.

Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications

2 years College, Trade or Tech School Diploma in IT, Computer Science, or related discipline required
Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline preferred
Certified Scrum Master preferred
3 years of experience being a Scrum Master or equivalent experience working in an Agile environment required
3 years of experience in a leadership or project lead role preferred
Proven ability to promote innovative thinking and selfimprovement within the squad
Proven ability to coach squad on agile practices and adherence to agile methodology to deliver maximum business value on time
Experience in scheduling and coordinating meetings, identifying risks/dependencies/impediments, and coordinating resources and handling multiple priorities
Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex messages and teach new concepts
Demonstrated experience coaching and supporting teams in agile adoption
Proven expertise in agile techniques, including Scrum and Kanban
Excellent prioritization skills
Demonstrated track record of working in collaborative environments as a facilitator, coach, and conflict navigator
Experience in setting, recording, and assessing OKR's (objectives and key results)
Displays an understanding of risk and risk ownership by being able to demonstrate adherence to policies and procedures.

Why work for us?
We offer a total rewards package that recognizes the meaningful work you do to support our members and our communities, which includes:

A competitive base salary plus performance-based incentive compensation
Annual merit pay increases
Flexible benefits as well as support for retirement benefits
Vacation time, a flexible "Day4U" and the option to purchase up to five additional vacation days