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Scrum Master
- Remote / Telecommute
for our client in
Edmonton, AB
Job Title: Scrum Master - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: Edmonton, AB
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Lead and mentor cross-functional teams in agile principles and ensure effective delivery of services and product deliverables. Facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain delivery metrics, guide product owners, and support continuous improvement.
Requirement/Must Have:
- Active professional Scrum Master certification.
- Experience in coaching teams on Agile methodologies, facilitating agile ceremonies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
- Experience leading and facilitating key agile ceremonies including planning sessions, stand-ups, product demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Experience working within an agile development environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor cross-functional program review and product delivery teams in agile principles, policies, and procedures.
- Lead and facilitate agile ceremonies including planning sessions, stand-ups, sprint reviews, product demos, retrospectives, refinement, and ad hoc sessions.
- Coach teams on agile methodology including estimating, sprint commitments, managing dependencies, and resolving blocking issues.
- Promote achievement of sprint goals by acting as liaison between the product owner and team.
- Guide the product owner on reporting, release planning, and road mapping.
- Maintain delivery metrics and report on plans, progress, and quality assurance using project management tools and artifacts.
- Participate in digital service delivery activities including user research and usability testing.
- Support required adjustments to services and materials as determined with the client.
- Complete all mandatory training assigned after hiring.
Skills:
- Ability to coach and guide cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies.
- Proficiency in maintaining agile artifacts and metrics.
Should Have:
- Experience delivering training sessions via web-based interactive technology.
- Experience planning work aligned to product owner priorities including sprint and backlog planning.
- Experience with Agile backlog management tools such as JIRA or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with software development processes, best practices, methods, standards, and tools.
- Experience with IT/IM policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Experience working in or for the public sector.
- Experience working on registries modernization projects.
- Experience working with teams applying UX design, service design, or human-centered design approaches.
Qualification And Education:
- Completion of mandatory training assigned after hiring.