Scrum Master /Senior Project Manager Contract Duration: 6 months Location: Toronto, some trave within GTA may be required
As a Scrum Master/Senior Project Manager, you will assist in building high-performing teams by providing support with product delivery, utilizing a deep understanding of agile principles and team dynamics.
Responsibilities:- Monitor Scrum processes and support Product Owner on release planning and backlog management
- Strengthen the teams understanding of Agile / Scrum principles and ensure application of these practices
- Ensure alignment of teams with Agile practices while influencing and coaching them towards high performance
- Bring transparency to Business, IT, and Operations about the teams progress and Agile processes
- Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams adapt to changing circumstances
- Ensure the teams actions are aligned with the project goals and vision
- Manage all phases of large or several medium, high risk IT infrastructure projects while leveraging best practice standards and processes
- Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure project delivery expectations are specified and successfully met
- Proven ability to develop and manage detailed work plans, project schedules, estimates and resource plans
- Define and manage project risks and issues ensuring appropriate strategies and plans are in place to mitigate or handle effectively
- Ensure effective and timely communication occurs within the project team and between the project team and stakeholders
- Actively drive and present product plans and reviews, demos, and competitive analyses with the team, partners and executive leadership.
- Work with larger program teams in building external communication and action plans using JIRA, Confluence, and other tools
- 5 to 10 years of progressive experience as a Scrum Master / Project Manager
- Foundational knowledge of cloud: AWS and Azure a plus
- 5 to 7 years of experience with implementing medium to large range of technology/business projects; including core infrastructure (data centre, cloud computing [AWS, Azure], mainframes, distributed server environments, web-hosting services, desktop, network, telephony, unified communication, security, etc)
- Extensive knowledge of Agile principles and the ability to adapt previous experience to evolving environments with ambiguous requirements
- Agile certification: Scrum Master, Kanban, SAFe
- Certified Project Management professional designation (PMP)
- Delivery or software development background a plus