Title:  Scrum Master

The Role

We are looking for a driven and passionate Scrum Master to champion agile methodologies and build a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. You will work closely with engineering, product, design, and delivery teams to facilitate agile ceremonies, remove impediments, and ensure alignment around sprint goals and priorities. Your efforts will directly impact the way we deliver value to our customers and enable high-performing teams to thrive.

Is this role right for you?

• 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.  

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

What's in it for you? 

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans. 
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. 
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.   
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one. 
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons and much more!