Intermediate Scrum Masters - remote - Victoria

Are you an experienced Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience? Are you looking for your next opportunity that allows you to work remotely and is a long-term project?

We're looking for multiple Intermediate Scrum Masters for an initial contract until Aug 31st, 2027 with the opportunity for extensions!

Advantages
  • Competitive market rates
  • Long term contract with a high probability of extensions
  • Work remotely

Responsibilities
Agile Team Facilitation
  • Facilitate Agile and Scrum ceremonies including:
o Sprint Planning
o Daily Stand-Ups
o Sprint Reviews
o Retrospectives
o Backlog Refinement sessions

  • Support effective team collaboration and communication.
  • Promote self-organization and team accountability.

Delivery Planning and Coordination
  • Support quarterly and sprint-level planning activities.
  • Assist teams in defining and maintaining delivery roadmaps.
  • Track progress against commitments and delivery objectives.
  • Support dependency identification and management across initiatives. Impediment Management
  • Identify, document, and help remove delivery impediments.
  • Escalate issues and risks where appropriate.
  • Facilitate discussions and decision-making required to maintain delivery momentum.

Agile Coaching and Continuous Improvement
  • Coach teams on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean delivery practices.
  • Support continuous improvement efforts through retrospectives and action planning.
  • Encourage adoption of modern delivery, collaboration, and planning practices.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Provide status reporting and delivery metrics as requested.
  • Support communications with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to portfolio-level planning and coordination activities.

Qualifications
Demonstrated Experience:

The proposed resources must demonstrate:
  • A minimum of five (5) years of recent experience serving as a Scrum Master on Agile delivery teams.
  • Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and Agile planning activities.
  • Experience supporting multidisciplinary teams delivering digital products or services.
  • Experience managing delivery risks, issues, impediments, and dependencies.
  • Experience coaching delivery teams in Agile principles and practices.

Preference may be given for the following:
  • Experience delivering digital services within the public sector.
  • Experience supporting multi-team or portfolio-level Agile delivery environments.
  • Experience working with citizen-facing digital services.
  • Experience supporting service design, product management, or digital transformation initiatives.
  • Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Miro, Microsoft Teams, or similar Agile delivery tools.
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent Agile certification.
  • Experience working within Government of British Columbia or broader public-sector environments.

Summary
If you're a Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience, apply today or reach out to your Randstad representative!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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