Scrum Master

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We are currently seeking a Scrum Master to join our team in Ottawa, Ontario (CA-ON), Canada (CA).

Job Description:
NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
We are currently seeking a Scrum Master to join our team in Canada.
Summary:

• Our client is seeking a Scrum Master Service Provider to support them by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver high-user value / high-quality products, allow the team to self-organize, remove impediments, shield the team from outside distractions, and continuously promote and support the team's use of Agile and Scrum.
• The Scrum Master Service Provider is to focus on developing a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information will be a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices, processes, and behaviors for executing effectively and with quality; raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management, continuous improvement, and ceremony facilitation.

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
• Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals, vision, and roadmap.
• Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team's goals (for example, using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis, identifying risks etc.).
• Ability to implement, navigate, communicate, and decipher trends using team metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time), DevOps/ IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs.
• Clear obstacles in the team's path (for example, dependencies on other teams), maintain a list of risks, impediments, and improvements.
• Facilitate team events (planning sessions, retrospectives, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).
• Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation.
• Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
• Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
• Identify ways to strengthen teams' understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
• Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams to inspect and adapt.
• Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
• Complex stakeholder management.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
• Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
• Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.
• Capable of delivering effective coaching to squad members to help achieve the full potential of the individual and the squad.
• Strong supporter of squad members by helping them develop necessary skills and Agile expertise.
• Effective collaborator with the Product Owner and squad to drive towards achieving Product Vision and OKRs.
• Familiar with Agile and leverages relevant frameworks (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) to optimize squad outcomes.

• Minimum 5 years' experience working as a Scrum Master.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in Project Management, Program Management or Business Analysis.
• Must have a Scrum Master certification (e.g., DASM, DASSM, PSM).
• Must have knowledge of Azure Dev Ops (ADO).
• Must have knowledge of Planview Portfolios AgilePlace.
• Advanced knowledge of the software SDLC, Agile principles, Scrum Framework and Kanban.
• Knowledge of data analytics platforms such as PowerBI, SAS Viya, Informatica MDM, SQL Server, etc.
• Must have a Federal Security Clearance at Reliability level.
• Must have a Canadian university degree or college/CEGEP diploma related to computer science, business administration, IT or the equivalent as established by a recognized Canadian academic credentials assessment service. A copy of the degree or diploma must be provided upon request.

• Experience working in Technology, financial services, federal crown corporation, Data and information management.
• Knowledge of Data ecosystems, Ei, ITIL, IT Service Management and IT Operations.
• Bilingual in English and French is an asset.
• Located in the National Capital Region (Ottawa) is an asset.

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