Scrum Master II

Job Overview

Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5 hours per week
Line of Business:
Enterprise Enabling Functions
Pay Range: $96,900 - $136,800 CAD

• End-to-end facilitation of the agile processes.
• Drive continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity across work efforts.
• Engage appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments to achieve outcomes of work commitments.
• Identify agile team improvement opportunities and look externally for best practices to increase team productivity.
• Ensure no hidden work; ensure that everything the agile team (e.g., pod) is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions.
• Champion agile practices and ceremonies, providing advice and guidance to the agile team regarding best practices in agile and the TD Scaled Agile methodology.
• Ensure the team adheres to ‘Work In Progress Limits’ established by the Product Owner, and help them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner.
• Encourage the team to look for opportunities to support each other, focusing on higher priority stories the team members are struggling with.
• Promote a collaborative culture within the team, ensuring team engagement and team building.
• Coordinate and facilitate ceremony logistics, ensuring all Agile ceremonies/processes are held and all team members are present and on time, particularly the daily stand‑up.
• Ensure engagement of appropriate control partners, working across the agile team (pod) to ensure required assessments and information are accurate and up‑to‑date.

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks and methodologies relevant to activities for the business area.
• Ensure respective policies/practices are well executed, meeting business needs, complying with internal and external requirements, and aligning with business priorities.
• Facilitate work execution aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives.
• Adhere to enterprise governance to ensure deliverables meet all performance, quality and compliance standards and follow the approved methodology.
• Work directly with key stakeholders to remove impediments and help manage cross‑team dependencies.
• Collaborate with Product Owner(s), Technology Lead(s) and Team(s) on sprint planning, impediment removal, and team execution.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes aligning with risk appetite.
• Identify and manage risks, escalating non‑standard, high‑risk transactions/activities as necessary.

• Participate fully as a member of the agile team, supporting a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork.
• Provide thought leadership and industry knowledge for agile execution, participating in capability building for the team and business unit.
• Stay current on emerging trends and developments, growing knowledge of the business and agile tools/techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within the team.
• Keep others informed and up‑to‑date about the status/progress of committed work and relevant information.
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship, sharing knowledge and experiences and best practices.
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external agile teams to develop productive working relationships.
• Create a fair, positive and equitable environment supporting a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for the bank, internally and/or externally.

Experienced Scrum Master capable of supporting 1‑2 simple to complex pods/agile teams. Comprehensive knowledge/expertise in own domain/field of specialty and working knowledge of broader related areas, supporting a small team of professionals assigned to agile teams. Requires full understanding of the TDSA processes,…