Scrum Master - Project Manager
Intact
Date: 1 day ago
City: Montreal, Quebec
Contract type: Full time
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.
Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.
About The Role
Our growing team is looking for a Scrum Master/Project Manager!
What You'll Do Here
Planning and Organization:
Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.
Working Here Means You'll Be Empowered To Be And Do Your Best Every Day. Here Is Some Of What You Can Expect As a Permanent Member Of Our Team
At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.
We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.
We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.
If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.
If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.
Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.
About The Role
Our growing team is looking for a Scrum Master/Project Manager!
What You'll Do Here
Planning and Organization:
- Support the Product Owner in prioritizing tasks as needed.
- Assist the Product Owner in creating and maintaining a healthy product backlog.
- Support and assist the squad in problem-solving.
- Organize and facilitate the necessary meetings (retro, scrum, demo, etc.).
- Collaborate with the Product Owner, Project Manager, and development teams to define sprint content and delivery priorities.
- Provide feedback on resources to the direct supervisor and Project Manager.
- Identify team's training and expertise needs.
- Ensure compliance with standards and methods of Intact Financial Corporation at all times.
- Conduct monitoring and improvements of practices.
- Act as an Agile Coach for the squad.
- Collaborate with the squad to establish an effective and appropriate working mode.
- Adequately support squads on agile best practices to maximize their efficiency and achieve their goals.
- Be an expert in agile methodologies and practices.
- Master communication techniques and know how to use them contextually (validation, reformulation, feedback, visualization) both in face-to-face and virtual meetings.
- Help the team remove obstacles.
- Effectively lead meetings and presentations, even in difficult situations.
- Use strategies to overcome deadlocks and work in uncertainty contexts.
- Ensure proactive and effective communication at all levels.
- Ensure team mobilization.
- Facilitate various agile ceremonies.
- Negotiate with the Product Owner the right mix of technical stories versus business stories.
- Act as a servant leader for the squad and facilitate planning, retrospectives, and process adaptation to ensure quality of squads/solutions.
- Protect the team from external disturbances and ensure it focuses on sprint goals/commitments.
- Guide the team in improving its effectiveness and autonomy to create a high-performance environment.
- Work to establish a culture of continuous improvement within the squad to strengthen collaboration, engagement, performance, and communication.
- Guide the team towards self-organization.
- Prepare and follow deployment planning across all environments.
- Ensure daily activity tracking and reporting, including squad velocity and sprint/delivery progress.
- Coordinate dependencies with Scrum Masters of other squads within the same tribe.
- Identify and confirm necessary stakeholders for various deployments.
- Manage bug planning with the Product Owner and Project Manager
- Ensure support during deployments in environments.
- Demonstrate leadership in emergency situations.
- Participate in and/or organize the necessary meetings (CAB, PM IT, scrum, retrospectives, demo, etc.).
- Make the status of work, team velocity, and sprint/delivery progress visible.
- Plan and execute all project aspects within scope, time, budget, and quality limits, in accordance with the Agile framework established for the team or department.
- Ensure the team understands and respects their DOR (Definition Of Ready) and DOD(Definition of Done).
- Effectively manage project delivery with the direction.
- Support the direction in creating dashboards, key performance indicators (KPI), and reports.
- Lead certain transformation initiatives.
- Manage issues, dependencies, and obstacles in projects.
- Master continuous improvement and processes.
- 5 to 8 years of experience as a dedicated Scrum Master or equivalent experience in Agile product development.
- Recognized Scrum Master certification or equivalent.
- Experience in project management.
- Strong skills and knowledge in facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
- Knowledge of Atlassian tools suite, such as Jira and Confluence, Clarity PPM, an asset.
- Demonstrated leadership.
- Initiative minded.
- Technological curiosity.
- Team collaboration.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Bilingualism (French and English) – Need to interact on a regular basis with colleagues across the country.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.
Working Here Means You'll Be Empowered To Be And Do Your Best Every Day. Here Is Some Of What You Can Expect As a Permanent Member Of Our Team
- A financial rewards program that recognizes your success
- An industry leading Employee Share Purchase Plan; we match 50% of net shares purchased
- An extensive flex pension and benefits package, with access to virtual healthcare
- Flexible work arrangements
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- An annual wellness account that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle
- Access to tools and resources to support physical and mental health, embracing change and connecting with colleagues
- A dynamic workplace learning ecosystem complete with learning journeys, interactive online content, and inspiring programs
- Inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities
- Inspiring leaders and colleagues who will lift you up and help you grow
- A Community Impact program, because what you care about is a part of what makes you different. And how you contribute to your community should be just as unique.
At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.
We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.
We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.
If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.
If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.
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