Scrum Master

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Montréal, QC
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
As a Scrum Master, you'll lead Agile teams in managing cross-sector projects, ensuring effective implementation of Agile practices, fostering team engagement, and resolving impediments to project progress. You will facilitate meetings, aid in the organization of the Scrum team, and support the Product Owner in optimizing project outcomes while ensuring transparency and quality control.
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As Scrum Master, you will help carry out cross-sector projects to meet objectives on time and on budget. You will help the Scrum team implement and use the Agile approach on a daily basis for major projects. You will act as a custodian of respect for Agile values and principles. You will promote the engagement of the squad’s stakeholders to deliver projects as planned and foster the group’s self-organization. You will ensure that the barriers encountered are handled so as to protect the squad from disruptive external elements. As such, your ability to engage others will be an essential skill. You will advise and coach dedicated clients and partners in connection with key intervention and development mandates in an Agile mode delivery context. Your projects and initiatives will require extensive knowledge of your line of work. You will develop recommendations, solutions and action plans in line with the organization’s orientations and objectives. You will help the team solve complex problems that require analysis and in-depth understanding of the line of business. Coordination is critical, and you will interact with various stakeholders who work in complementary fields of expertise. More specifically, you will be required to:

  • Help the Scrum team implement and use the Agile approach for major projects

  • Assemble and assist the project’s Scrum team and facilitate meetings. Ensure that both the individuals responsible for the product/process and the project team understand and carry out their respective roles in a satisfactory manner

  • Ensure that the Scrum team is functional, productive and well organized. Ensure efficient use of the Agile approach and tools, as well as compliance with Agile values. Establish and monitor performance indicators

  • Ensure transparency on the status of work progress. Deal with and follow up on problems raised by the team

  • Ensure the consistency of sprint backlog tasks with the commitments undertaken on the functionality of the product backlog

  • Help the product owner maximize return on investment, meet objectives and manage the product backlog

  • Handle quality control for the product backlog and various meetings (sprint planning meeting, maintenance and product backlog estimation sessions, and sprint review)

What we offer*

  • Competitive salary and annual bonus

  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year

  • Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement

  • Group insurance including telemedicine

  • Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

What you bring to the table

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field

  • A minimum of four years of relevant experience

  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

  • Knowledge of French is required

Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Engagement, Nimble learning

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Trade Union (If applicable)

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!

Job Family

Project management (FG)

Unposting Date

2025-01-30

Top Skills

Agile,Scrum
The Company
Calgary, AB
40,858 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world, with assets of $435.8 billion as at March 31, 2024. It was named one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine and by Mediacorp. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. Ranked among the world's strongest banks according to The Banker magazine, Desjardins has some of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry and the first according to Bloomberg News

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