AddressThe Opportunity:
We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.
The Emerging Business Model (EBM) Tech team exists to deliver proactive embedded products that delight customers and partners in their moment of need. We design, build, and deliver digital first platform and services that enable data differentiated and hyper-personalized insurance propositions within ecosystem partners’ experiences. If you like the idea of engineering innovation at scale through digital, analytics, automation and contributing to a wide variety of next-gen integrated propositions, we think you’ll love working at EBM Tech!
As the Scrum Master you will be a key stakeholder in the delivery of initiatives supporting the Emerging Business Models. You will apply scrum methodologies and disciplines while overseeing key project deliverables across multiple streams of work and working with various internal stakeholders to achieve results.
How you will create impact:
- Identification of framework applicable for various projects and initiatives. This could include, but not be limited to, scrum, Kanban and various hybrid frameworks like Scrumban, Wagile (Waterfall+Agile) etc.
- Advocate adoption of agile principles and ways of working including coaching stakeholders to support uptake
- Setup of governance frameworks, cadences, boards to enable the team to successfully delivery
- Facilitating all scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, planning, review, and retrospective sessions.
- Offering support to the team in managing the backlog and facilitating grooming and sprint review sessions to support incremental delivery of products or services.
- Integrating change management activities, negotiating with key project stakeholders, and chairing project meetings.
- Establishing and maintaining productive working relationships with all project stakeholders, including communicating plans and providing status updates to interdependent teams.
- Participating in the planning process to align objectives with project priorities and maximize resource utilization and results.
How you will succeed:
- You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
- You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
- You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
- You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and going beyond the role of a traditional scrum master to support the team’s goals
- You have worked in environments where delivery was driven through vendor teams as well as through internal engineering teams
- You have excellent document creation, presentation and excel skills
To join our team:
- You have at least 5 years of relevant experience in Information Technology or a related business field.
- You have a post-secondary degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- You have strong knowledge of project management practices and methodologies and successful project life cycle experience, including business systems expertise.
- You have demonstrated ability to influence and coach teams towards high performance in an Agile environment.
- You have expertise applying well documented Agile techniques, including user stories, backlog tracking, burndown techniques, velocity, Acceptance Test driven development and Continuous Testing.
- Having the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or equivalent certification is an asset.
What you need to know:
- You will travel as required.
- You will be subject to a Criminal Record and Consumer History background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.
What’s in it for you?
- Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
- Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.
- A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
- Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive salary, bonus, pension and benefits.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus pay
