Lead IT Scrum Master
City : TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Category : Strategy | Project & Program Management
Industry : Financial/Banking
Employer : RBC
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WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY
As a Lead Scrum Master, you will enable several multi-disciplinary agile teams at RBC’s Site Reliability Engineering Center for Enablement to run a highly agile development process that seamlessly aligns with business and technical needs. The Scrum Master is a key role within a highly technical engineering/delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a team's pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business benefits for one or several RBC lines of business. This role will work very closely not only with engineers and developers, but a highly motivated Product Owner/Manager focused on value driven delivery.
WHAT WILL YOU DO
Monitoring and improving the scrum process and project progress; helping solve impediments in the development process.
Coaching multiple development/scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
Fostering self-organization and collaborative scrum team; sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
Ensuring scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders; maximizing the performance of the team.
Initiative delivery:
Facilitating medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with RBC Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning
Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet LOB stakeholders’ needs and expectations
Manage risks to delivery
Tracking and reporting for the Team
Navigating and identifying shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives
Team activity facilitation (small to medium teams):
Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
Remove impediments to delivery success and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment
Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
Facilitating and engaging in business analysis, user experience and technical conversations across platforms and multiple levels of influence
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
Must have:
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Kanban Service Delivery Manager- where Scrum or Kanban principles, practices and theory were diligently applied
5+ years of experience in software development and/or project management and/ or business (system) analysis or other relevant professional experience
4+ years of working on medium-to-high complexity initiatives
Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience and Certified Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner.
Nice-to-have:
Experience working in a startup or tech focused company.
Product Ownership certification
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work
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