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

  

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. The pay rate for this position is C$85.00/hr.