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Job Description
- Req#: R00150813
- Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Enable the development teams in practicing the Agile principles
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
- Identify and remove team impediments, prevent distractions
- Facilitate team discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the team to self-organize
- Help the team maintain their burndown chart
- Set up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions
- Shield the team from interruptions during the sprint
- Remove obstacles that affect the team
- Encourage collaboration between the Scrum team and Product Owner Agile Leadership Coach
- University Degree
- Bilingual (French and English)
- Understanding and appreciation of Agile mindset, values and principles
- 3+ years of experience as scrum master while facilitating teams in complex environments
- Previous experience of facilitating scaled agile delivery using frameworks like SAFe® or others
- Experience with Agile delivery management tools like JIRA, Confluence, Planview etc.
- Agile certifications like SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe PO/PM, CSM etc.
SENIOR SCRUM MASTER
Location: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary or Vancouver
ARE YOU READY to step up and take your technology expertise to the next level?
There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to create a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Working in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients shift to the New using leading-edge technologies on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.
Delivery Excellence is an exciting and growing team to be part of! We have highly developed project management skills that fit in to nearly all types of client projects, from Business Process Outsourcing to new Application Development. We focus on delivery excellence, creating repeatable, efficient, scalable, delivery solutions in which we are sourced to support global projects with over 500 clients.
WORK YOU’LL DO
The Scrum Master role serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments, and communicates with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists. The Scrum Master role will generally encompass the following:
WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR?
Basic Qualifications:
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Preferred Qualifications:
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