Title:  Scrum Master Specialist

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of Cash Management in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies including iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team.
• Apply techniques for effective workflow visualization and management (e.g. Kanban or Scrum Boards).
• Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with particular emphasis on timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution.
• Facilitate identifying and enacting improvement strategies to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables.
• Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work – maintaining the momentum of the initiative and upholding a sustainable pace of delivery; track agile metrics to provide statistical proof of momentum and sustainability.
• Understand long-term product planning / roadmap and influence PO to have a discussion with development teams to create quicker gains for the benefit of the end user.
• Works with PO to ensure proper lightweight documentation (captured in artifacts such as program vision statement, program backlog, program roadmap, release plan, sprint backlog, and increments) is prioritized and added to the team’s backlog of work.
• Compliance with Scotiabank policies and procedures for project delivery
• Develop strong partnership with the Product Owner to gain strong understanding of objectives, sustain open dialogue to manage product backlog efficiently.
• Influence a wide range of stakeholders (business, compliance, Legal, IT, etc.) to remove impediments and maximize team output.
• Support and educate the Product Owner on agile principles and practices to preserve the team from external pressures which may inhibit its productivity.

• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Primary Manager:

(include secondary Manager if applicable)

·     Senior Manager

Direct Reports:

• Senior Manager

Shared Reports (solid/dotted if applicable):

·     Senior Manager

• Minimum 8 years of IT experience 
• 5+ years of Scrum Master experience in a recent project/initiative within a true agile environment.
• Experience coordinating and/or leading large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects.
• Prior Project Management experience is nice to have.
• Individual may have Scrum Master Certification (CSM) or another Scrum Master certification.
• KMP I (Kanban Systems Design) certification – Nice to have.
• Safe, Scrum@Scale Certification – Nice to have.