Scrum Master - REMOTE

ss various ministries, focusing on service innovation, program review, and digital transformation. Your expertise in agile practices will guide these teams through comprehensive sprint planning, execution, and continuous improvement, ensuring efficient, effective, and user-centered service delivery. If you're ready to make a significant impact and help deliver better services to the citizens of Alberta, we invite you to apply and bring your skills to a project of province-wide importance.

Advantages
• Directly contribute to the modernization of public services, enhancing the way citizens interact with the government.
• Gain invaluable experience and leadership skills in a high-impact, government setting with the potential for professional development in agile and digital transformation practices.
• Work within a dynamic, cross-functional team environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and shared success in project delivery.
• Benefit from a balanced approach to onsite and remote work, accommodating a variety of project needs and personal preferences.
• Potential: Enjoy the stability of a one-year contract with the possibility of extension up to two years, offering sustained engagement and long-term project involvement.

Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor cross-functional program review and product delivery teams in agile principles, policies, and procedures.
• Lead and facilitate key agile ceremonies, including planning sessions, stand-ups, sprint reviews, product demos, retrospectives, and refinement. This could also include ad hoc sessions.
• Facilitate effective delivery of Services and deliverables by the cross-functional program review and product delivery teams through coaching and guiding the GoA product owner and the team. Specifically:
o Coach the team on the application of agile methodology including how to provide effective estimates and sprint commitments, how to adjust for external dependencies, how to eliminate blocking issues, etc.
o Promote the successful achievement of sprint goals and commitments, by acting as the intermediary between the client product owner and team.
o Guide the client product owner on reporting, release planning, and road-mapping.

• Maintain delivery metrics and report on product level plans, progress, and quality assurance using project management tools and Artifacts such as sprint burndown/velocity charts, product backlogs, and sprint backlogs. The Scrum Master(s) will be required to report on progress to the client as directed.
• Participate in digital service delivery activities, such as user research and usability testing.

Qualifications
MANDATORY:

Professional Licenses/Certification
M1Active Certified Scrum Master certification (please attach)
Technical Skills
M2Knowledge of various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.).
Work Experience
M32 years Experience delivering training sessions via web-based interactive technology i.e. TEAMs.
M42 years Experience leading and facilitating key agile ceremonies, including planning sessions, stand-ups, product demonstrations, and retrospectives.
M52 years Experience leading and mentoring team(s) in agile principles, policies and procedures
M62 years Experience planning work that aligns to product owner priorities (Sprint planning and backlog planning).
M72 years Experience with Agile methodology.
M85 years Experience with software development processes, and all associated best practices, methods, standards, tools, and policies.
M92 years Experience with software development processes, and all associated best practices, methods, standards, tools, and policies.

DESIRABLE:

Work Experience
N15 years Directly related experience in web service or development.
N25 years Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across the organization, including executive level.
N32 years Experience working in or for the public sector.
N41 year Experience working with teams that also apply UX design, service design, design thinking, or human-centered design approaches


Summary
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