Job Title: Agile Scrum Master

Location: Markham, Ontario-Canada, (office, 3 days a week Tue & Wed mandatory & 1 day flexible)

Hire Mode: Full Time Permanent

Primary Skills: PSM/CSM, Scrum/Kanban

Secondary Skills Insurance and Data Domain knowledge preferred

Job Description

• As a Scrum Master, Guide the team to follow the values and principles of Agile and apply the appropriate Agile framework and techniques and create an environment of self-organisation.
• Teach and Coach the team and organisation in Agile theory and software engineering techniques.
• Support and educate Product Owners, especially with respect to refining and maintaining a product
• backlog.
• Ensure both internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information on team activities.
• Collect and communicate all necessary metrics and propose new ones in the spirit of constant
• empiricism.
• Optimise integrated change across assigned technology platform. Ensure quality is driven into all
• aspects of the delivery lifecycle and defects are driven out as early as possible.
• Perform gap analysis of overall technology platform capabilities and tool and develop a roadmap for
• improvement
• Support value stream mapping carried out by Agile Delivery Lead

Skills / Experience

• A solid understanding of Agile values and principles.
• A good overall knowledge of a range of Agile frameworks
• Insurance business knowledge.
• Good stakeholder management skills and an ability to inspire individuals and teams to change and
• improve.
• Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes: Test
• Automation, Continuous Integration, Pairing, DevOps, Refactoring, ATDD/TDD/BDD, Extreme
• Programming (XP), Value Stream Mapping
• Self-motivation and willingness to learn and explore new ideas.
• Insurance / Finance domain knowledge preferred.
• Data Domain Guidewire, Informatica and Master Data Management preferred
• Qualifications Professional Certification (minimum PSM1/CSM or equivalent)