Title:  Senior Scrum Master

Requisition ID: 254753 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Role

The Global Fraud Technology team develops and manages innovative products designed to support the ever-changing threat landscape. We work in close partnership with our Fraud Business and key Technology Partners throughout Scotiabank to drive global technology delivery. We are key team members within Enterprise Technology to ensure business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Global Fraud Technology Team is looking for an energetic and seasoned ScrumMaster for driving team effectiveness by identifying and removing impediments, supporting the team, and encouraging practices in accordance with agile principles.

The Scrum Master is empowered to introduce better ways to boost team productivity. They lead the team by embodying agile values, facilitating ceremonies, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement and shared practices. The incumbent will be actively involved in the development and maintenance of a high-performing, self-organizing team.

In this role you will:  

• As a Scrum Master, you'll ensure that the team enacts the agile principles, values, and framework.
• Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style.
• Train the development team and help lead and ensure that the "agile mindset" is fully embraced and understood
• Implement and promote the use of agile methodology within the team.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including iteration, such as planning, iteration review, retrospectives and daily standups or replenishments, delivery review, delivery planning, and standups for the Kanban framework.
• Understand long-term product planning/roadmap and help inform development teams to create faster wins for the benefit of the end user
• Ensure that appropriate 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.
• Develop and nurture strong partnership relationships with the product owner/business sponsor and stakeholders
• Some of the key accountabilities include:
• Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects; It adapts precedent and can make significant deviations from traditional approaches to developing solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives or scrum teams in parallel, coach talents, manage multi location scrum team members effectively.
• Advanced level of understanding of agile principles and practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development and risk management practices.
• Advanced understanding of incremental delivery and value metrics, including backlog tracking, burn-in metrics, acceptance criteria, speed, and task definition.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate the effective breakdown of epics into user stories, to achieve high levels of sprint speed within corporate constraints, to plan and execute against the accumulation of iterations.

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

• Professional education in computer engineering, business, information science, or another related field preferred
• 5 - 8 years of experience in IT.
• More than 5 years of experience in people management and/or leadership of large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects, preferably in an agile work environment.
• Project management experience with a strong understanding of agile project management principles and practices along with work experience as a Scrum Master on a recent project/initiative.
• Have the ScrumMaster Certification (CSM).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence management and teams.
• Extensive knowledge of software technologies and the various iterative/adaptive methodologies of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience participating in/leading SoS (Scrum of Scrums).
• Intermediate/advanced knowledge and use of Jira and Confluence.

Preferred:

• Experience with the DevOps framework.
• Experience in operational readiness.

What’s In It for You

• We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work 
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success! 
• You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world 
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing). 

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, 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. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.