Scrum Master II

Scrum Master II – TD

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

37.5 hours per week.

Enterprise Enabling Functions

$91,200 - $136,800 CAD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience  compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

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• 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

• 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 elevate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary

• 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/…