Portfolio Scrum Master, Expert

Title: Portfolio Scrum Master, Expert

Location : Toronto, ON - 4 days / week

Contract: 12 months to start with opportunity for extension

Interview: 2 rounds virtual (Final interview is a panel with product team)

Start Date: Nov 1

Req Intake Notes:

Portfolio Scrum Master / Agile Program Manager hybrid , supporting a Data & AI portfolio where multiple Agile teams are sprinting underneath a larger portfolio structure.

The ideal person should have:

• Portfolio-level Scrum Master experience
• Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams/workstreams
• Strong traditional program management background
• Ability to operate at the portfolio/program level , not just facilitate individual team ceremonies
• Experience with Data, AI, technology, or large transformation portfolios
• Dependency management across teams
• Risk/issue management
• Roadmap and milestone tracking
• Executive/stakeholder communication
• Agile planning and governance
• Experience working in environments where teams are delivering through sprints within a larger program/portfolio

JOB DESCRIPTIONS:

Portfolio Scrum Master

This role will be working within an AI portfolio within Commercial Banking. Relevant expertise in financial institutions, commercial banking and AI/Machine Learning an asset.

Job Description:

Productivity

• Delivery?
• Facilitate collaboration across multiple agile teams?
• Partner with the Portfolio Leader to create and maintain Portfolio level delivery roadmaps?
• Impediment removal facilitation?
• Escalate impediments, manage risks and dependencies between teams

Quality

• Continuous Improvement ?
• Facilitate leadership retrospectives to drive continuous improvement (portfolio level)
• Work with the agile coach to identify and improve portfolio level maturity
• Maintain portfolio level roadmap that consolidates team continuous improvement roadmaps
• KPI and metrics reporting?
• Report consolidated portfolio level metrics for all agile teams in the portfolio

Sustainability

• Governance?
• Facilitate Portfolio ceremonies and processes?
• Lead execution on ceremonies like Scrum of Scrums sessions?
• Risk Management?
• Proactively identify risks, issues, obstacles and raise them as soon as possible to the Portfolio Leaders