Senior Scrum Master

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Scrum Master. This role will facilitate agile processes and ceremonies while coaching teams to drive continuous improvement and delivery excellence..

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
• Act as a coach and mentor to the scrum team, helping to solve complex challenges and guiding them towards agile best practices.
• Identify and resolve process inefficiencies, promoting continuous improvement across teams and influencing change both internally and externally.
• Lead and support process improvement initiatives as a servant leader to enhance team performance and delivery effectiveness.
• Perform project management duties, including resource coordination, planning, scheduling, tracking, and reporting key metrics against project goals.
• Assist Product Owners and development teams in release planning, sprint backlog maintenance, and prioritization.
• Foster a safe and trusting team environment, enabling open discussions without fear of blame or judgment and encouraging problem-solving.
• Help teams achieve project objectives while aligning with overarching business goals and strategic priorities.
• Develop an agile mindset within the team and provide mentorship to new Scrum Masters to enhance agile capabilities across the organization.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Scrum Master in an agile environment.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).
• Excellent facilitation and coaching skills to drive team engagement and self-organization.
• Ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement improvements that drive high-quality delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to interact with teams, leadership, and external partners.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Ability to work in a hybrid model (3 days in-office, 2 days remote) and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.
• Certification such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) is a plus.

Benefits

• Type of job: Temporary Contractor - 1 year
• Location: Montreal (Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 days from home)
• Work hours: Monday - Friday, normal 40-hour week