Sr. Scrum Master / Delivery Lead to deliver API construction in an agile environment for a Financial Services Client

Location: Hybrid (downtown Toronto)

Our Financial Services Client is in need of a Sr. Scrum Master / Delivery Lead to deliver API construction in an agile environment

Must Have:

• 7+ years experience as a Scrum Master delivering APIs
• Foster agile principals (Scrum ceremonies, agile methodology, sprint management, etc.)
• 7+ years experience with Stakeholder and External Vendor Management
• 5+ years using Jira/Confluence

Nice to Haves:

• Financial Services Experience

Key Responsibilities

This is a rewarding, creative and challenging role, which demands initiative, resourcefulness and great collaboration and leadership skills.

• Own and drive retrospective action plans
• Manage complex deliverables with team and stakeholders that span cross-functionally
• Manage sprint &release schedule
• Track and manage risks, issues, dependencies, action items and key decisions
• Anticipate, identify blockers and make sure the team is unblocked and can effectively complete their work
• Provide stakeholder and executive communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and relationship building
• Keep the teams organized through facilitation and structured meetings
• Work with the team to identify roadmap/feature dependencies/impediments and remove them to enable the team
• Identify team conflict, consult to resolve and escalate to Leadership Team for support when necessary.
• Manage administration and maintenance of workflow/management tools (Confluence/JIRA)
• Collaborate with the team to analyze and breakdown experiences into smaller components for estimation.
• Coordinate compliance and readiness procedures (Ex. Operational Readiness) with associated teams (Ex. Release Engineering, Security, etc.).
• Engage and act as a conduit between stakeholders (e.g. risk, legal, audit) and team as needed for consultation throughout the course of the project.

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