Scrum Master II

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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 at TD. Our 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 candidates skills and experience job-related knowledge geographic location and other specific business and organizational needs.

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Job Description:

Preferred Qualifications

A specialized professional role that focuses on the improvement of the agile team (e.g. pod) and champions the methodology provides guidance on its application and associated processes protects the team from outside distractions conducts ceremony facilitation removes impediments and is dedicated to the agile team or pod.

The Scrum Master understands agile and helps stakeholders work according to the method for the benefit of the team and the committed work.

Background

The candidate will lead agile delivery within TD Securities supporting Client and Business Enablement and Trade Finance initiatives. The role is pivotal in driving speed-to-market solutions tailored to Corporate Financial and Trade Finance clients directly impacting client success and satisfaction. By collaborating with product owners business stakeholders and technology teams the candidate will ensure

Priorities align with strategic objectives - driving business growth expanding the product portfolio and contributing to client retention. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct measurable impact on client outcomes and the organizations continued success.

Job 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

• Ensure delivery of projects for the GTB business impacting enterprise-wide stakeholders collaborating with their Scrum teams and departments.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across different business lines including operations and back-end functions.

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

BREADTH & DEPTH

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

• Comprehensive knowledge / expertise in own domain / field of specialty and working knowledge of broader related areas and supporting a small team of professionals assigned to agile teams

• Requires full understanding of the TDSA (TD Scaled Agile) processes procedures and systems

• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve efficiency of own and other teams

• Helps resolve complex problems and is able to identify viable and often innovative options

• Understands scaling characteristics

• Begins to influence outside of immediate work and/or agile team

• Shares knowledge information skills and subject matter expertise among and across agile teams and ensures the timely communication of issues and encouragement of good working relationships with other functions and teams

• Supports an environment where team freely escalates challenges; facilitates change through positive reinforcement of successes

• Generally reports to Practice Lead and contributes directly to assigned Journey or Platform

• Facilities and supports the team to deliver business value in a timely and efficient manner

EXPERIENCE AND / OR EDUCATION

• Post -secondary education

• Certified Scrum Master and 3 years of Scrum Master experience

• Preferred 5-7 years Agile related experience

• Global Markets experience

Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate government and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation execution and experience. With more than 6500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight extending access to global markets and delivering integrated transaction banking 2023 we acquired Cowen Inc. offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise while growing our strong diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented people-focused and community-minded. As a team we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial physical and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary variable compensation and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits savings and retirement programs paid time off banking benefits and discounts career development and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
Were delighted that youre considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations training programs and a competitive benefits plan were committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations requirements.

Colleague Development
If youre interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills we want to help you succeed. Youll have regular career development and performance conversations with your manager as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues there are many different career paths within our organization at TD and were committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that youve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
Well reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if youd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms captioning for virtual interviews etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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