Scrum Master - Junior

Description Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables

• The Scrum Master will help with the introduction and adoption of Agile Development and facilitate the teams work to accelerate delivery of an acceptable work item by leveling Scrum.
  
• Events and to manage the project backlogs for one or more projects within the Permission.
  
• Enterprise Platform (PEP).
  
• This role is hybrid whereas staff will be in the office 2 days and 3 days from home.
  

General Skills

• Leads organizational development strategy development business planning and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules deliverable and scope
  
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
  
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverable are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
  
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
  
• Sources selects and onboards team members in various disciplines clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolves resourcing and interpersonal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverable are met.
  
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
  
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actual.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
  
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
  
• Provides project program and/or portfolio reporting to multistakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept definition planning implementation and closeout.
  
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
  

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management s Institute s Project Management Body of Knowledge
  
• knowledge and understanding of Agile Scrum principles concepts policies and practice
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
  
• knowledge and understanding of Azure Devops to create user stories run kanbans and monitor pipelines
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarian with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software hardware and technology resources
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
  
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
  
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations provides updates as required identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
  

Requirements

Must Haves

• Scrum Master certified and/or demonstrated experience in managing Scrum projects in sprints
  
• Experience in working on Agile developed projects
  
• Scrum Ceremonies including (daily standups sprint reviews planning backlog refinement retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping)
  
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of Java and Oracle projects
  
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of IBMs BPM
  
• Experience managing projects on Azure with continuous delivery.
  
• Demonstrated prior experience leading project teams facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team especially in a complex multistakeholder environment
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
  

Nice to Have:

• Previous Public Sector is an asset