Senior Scrum Master

Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis.

A Senior Scrum Master to run medium-to-complex internal Agile COE initiatives. The senior Scrum Master is a key role within an Agile delivery team as it enables and drives success of project goals. Senior Scrum Masters play an important role in the long-term evolution of agile practices at RBC.

* Initiative delivery: Facilitating medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with RBC Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning * Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet stakeholders’ needs and expectations. (may include business case development support and metric tracking) * Manage risks to delivery: Navigating and identifying shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives * Cross-functional Communication: Communicate cross functionally, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; Report team progress and accomplishment up and across; Facilitate status updates, product demos and retrospectives * Coaching: With the assistance of the Agile Coach, provide proactive coaching to the team and recommends continuous improvement of processes to optimize team productivity

**Must-have** * 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master – where Scrum principles, practices and theory were diligently applied * 5+ years of experience project management experience * Project / Program delivery in Agile and/or Waterfall environment (medium-to-large scale initiatives) using influence to facilitate to outcomes * Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development * Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience **Nice-to-have** * Agile Certification (e.g. SAFe, Scrum Master, Scrum Coach, Scrum Master Trainer, Rally)