Scrum Master - Intermediate

About the job

Assignment RQ06871 - Scrum Master - Intermediate

Status Open

Start Date 2024-04-02

Requisition (SS) RQ06871

Assignment # A1900284

Start Date 2024-04-02

Client Land & Resources Cluster

End Date 2025-03-31

Assignment Type Hybrid

Security Level No Clearance Required

Province/State Ontario

Description

Responsibilities:

• Leading the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
• Leading technical teams by reviewing their work and resolving day to day issues
• Champions the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success
• Schedules and facilitates agile / scrum events such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals, and adhere to quality standards
• Developing, maintaining and effectively executing integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
• Developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
• Identifying resource requirements and providing project resources/cost estimates
• Defining, clarifying roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources
• Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs
• Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components
• Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
• Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
• Communicating and controlling the scope, time and cost of the project to team members, clients and other stakeholders
• Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
• Provides project status updates to support portfolio level reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
• Identifies, analyses, prioritizes and communicates project risks for decision makers
• Collaborates and coaches product managers and product owners on backlog refinement/grooming
• Provides recommendations and mitigation strategies based on a detailed evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications
• Ensures documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members
• Assists in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
• Communicates effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
• Collaborates with Cluster staff, management, project resources and clients to resolve interdependencies between other projects/workstreams
• Providing inputs to the Cluster Staff in the development, maintenance and effective execution of the integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
• Supports the Cluster staff in developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
• Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation Criteria:

Agile Project Management Experience – 50%

• 10+ years demonstrated hands-on Project Management experience managing large complex application development projects
• 7+ years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
• 7+ years facilitating and leading ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping
• Demonstrated experience using issue management tools such as Jira to manage backlogs and sprints
• Experience creating and managing project schedules, project plans, issue/risk logs, status reports and other project management artefacts
• Experience managing project resources by aligning skills/experience to project tasks
• 3+ years experience multiple complex Siebel Public Sector project concurrently
• Experience planning and managing OPS project gating, architecture and governance checkpoints/requirements

Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills – 30%

• Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in complex multi-stakeholder environments
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight and/or aggressive project timelines
• Strong communication skills to present complex or technical details to business clients
• Strong negotiation, consensus building and ability to manage/facilitate difficult conversations with team members, clients and/or executives

Technical Skills – 20%

• 5+ years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, maintenance/support, integration
• Understanding of key phases and tasks of a Siebel based project
• Understanding of Oracle products/services, with an emphasis on Siebel Public Sector

Advanced Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Visio

• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager directly responsible for leading all aspects of large, complex Application Development initiatives
• Demonstrated hands on experience leading and managing agile projects, preferably following Scrum methodology
• Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing OPS governance Cluster and Corporate governance approval processes such as project gating, architecture governance points, digital first assessment
• Experience managing privacy and security deliverables
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies
• Experience leading technical teams
• Experience running scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives
• Demonstrated experience managing external and internal stakeholders and project interdependencies
• Strong technical and business aptitude
• Persistent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
• Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
• Project rescue/project triage experience is an asset