Scrum Master

Posted 20 Days Ago
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Ottawa, ON
Mid level
Information Technology
The Role
The Scrum Master will guide and coach the Scrum Team in Agile practices, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and facilitating team self-organization. They will engage with stakeholders, resolve impediments, and support the advancement of Agile practices while facilitating all Scrum ceremonies.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join a fast-paced company that is scaling agile to meet the needs of our customers and large solutions. 

We are searching for a Scrum Master to join our team in our Ottawa office!

Your Impact: 

  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on using Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers. 
  • Gets team to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. 
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines. 
  • Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, and domain knowledge and communicates effectively, internally and externally, working within the Scrum team. 
  • Works with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision-making and support organizational project or product teams. 
  • Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization. 
  • Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role. 
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization. 
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. 
  • Managers cross-functional dependencies through Scrum of Scrum or other ceremonies 
  • Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly roadmap work and applicable portions of cross-functional projects and initiatives. 

 Your Qualifications: 

  • Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles 
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills 
  • Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban) or understanding of software development life cycle models, as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices 
  • Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques 
  • Planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams 
  • Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience 
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques 
  • Certified Scrum Master 
  • Intermediate working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Jira Align 

 

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging 

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not: 

  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.  
  • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication. 

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.   

Top Skills

Agile
Kanban
Scrum
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,194 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Anaplan is building a future where connected leaders and teams are able to constantly adapt, transform and reinvent their businesses. We make it possible to share actionable insights, empower and unleash creativity, and drive innovation. With Anaplan, finance and operational leaders across the organization can model complex scenarios, forecast continuously with added intelligence, and make agile decisions with confidence.

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