Scrum Master II Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,IT/Tech

Description

CUSTOMER

End-to-end facilitation of the agile processes

Drives continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity across work efforts

Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments to achieve outcomes of work commitments

Identifies agile team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices in order to increase team productivity

Makes sure there is no hidden work, ensuring that everything the agile team (e.g., pod) is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions

Owns championing of agile practices and ceremonies

Provides advice and guidance to the agile team (e.g., pod), as required, regarding best practices in agile / the TD Scaled Agile methodology

Ensures team adheres to ‘Work In Progress Limits’ established by the Product Owner, making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helps them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner

Encourages the Team to look for opportunities to support each other (e.g., focus on higher priority Stories that team members are struggling with)

Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the Team, promotes team building and ensures team engagement

Coordinates and facilitates ceremony logistics and ensures all Agile ceremonies/processes are held and all team members are present and on time in particular, the daily stand-up meeting

Ensures engagement of appropriate control partners

Works across the agile team (e.g., pod) to ensure required assessments, and information are accurate and update to date

SHAREHOLDER

Adheres to enterprise frameworks and methodologies that relate to activities for our business area

Ensures respective policies/practices are well executed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities

Facilitates work execution that is aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives

Adheres to enterprise governance to ensure that deliverables meet all the performance, quality and compliance standards and follow the approved methodology

Works directly with key stakeholders to remove impediments and help manage cross- team dependencies

Collaborates with Product Owner(s), Technology Lead(s) and Team(s) on Sprint planning, impediment removal, and Team execution

Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts

Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Protects the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

Participates fully as a member of the agile team (e.g., Product Group, Product Family), supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for agile execution and participates in capability building for the team and business unit

Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, and agile related tools / techniques

Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team

Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of committed work and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities

Contributes to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices.

Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external Agile teams to develop productive working relationships

Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce

Acts as a brand ambassador for the bank, both internally and/or externally

BREADTH & DEPTH

Experienced Scrum Master capable of supporting 1-2 simple to complex pods/agile teams

Comprehensive…


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