Scrum Master – Pega/Banking
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Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a Scrum Master – Pega/Banking. You will support the Agile delivery of enhancements within Fraud applications, coaching teams, optimizing practices, and ensuring outcomes align with strategic objectives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Pay rate range (CAD): $78.26/hr – $93.91hr
Responsibilities
- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more squads, facilitating all Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Remove impediments, protect teams from external distractions, and foster a high-trust, high-velocity delivery culture.
- Maintain accountability for bi-weekly releases and continuous improvement initiatives, advocating feature toggling, trunk-based development, and incremental delivery.
- Lead the execution of Agile initiatives, assessing and adapting practices to ensure quality and timely delivery.
- Act as a trusted delivery advisor to product owners and stakeholders, operating effectively at group or enterprise levels.
- Monitor team performance with Agile metrics such as velocity and burndown charts.
- Adhere to BMO’s Agile Standards and Practices, integrating PMLC and SDLC activities for project management and operational readiness.
- Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, change requests, and status reports via project logs like Clarity.
- Manage Jira for backlog management, sprint planning, dependency tracking, and delivery progress.
- Maintain accurate financials and support vendor engagement and cross-team coordination.
- Partner with Product Owners on backlog refinement and prioritization to align outcomes with business goals.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to management, communicating status, risks, and insights.
- Drive Agile adoption through workshops, training, and challenging existing processes to foster modern ways of working.
Desired Skill-Set
- Agile Certification (required): CSM®, PSM® or equivalent. PMP® an asset.
- 7+ years in delivery roles, including 5+ years as a Scrum Master in complex digital environments, particularly FinTech and Fraud domains.
- Deep familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban), and knowledge of PMLC and SDLC.
- Expert proficiency in Jira, Confluence; working knowledge of CI/CD practices.
- Proven track record leading large, cross-functional teams to successful scope, schedule, budget, and quality outcomes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical skills, and influence capabilities.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and operate effectively under pressure.
Nice to Have
- FinTech domain experience.
- Pega experience.
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