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You will direct a cross-functional pod of 10–15 engineering and data professionals, championing Agile delivery excellence and facilitating ceremonies across both Scrum and Kanban frameworks. You will guide delivery of risk- and data-related products, facilitate Agile@Scale events such as Program Increment (PI) Planning, remove delivery impediments, and optimize work item cycle time. This role includes a comprehensive 2-week onboarding period and offers strong potential for contract extension or full-time permanent conversion.\n\nStart Date: ASAP\n\nContract Duration: 6 Months (High possibility of extension or permanent conversion based on performance and business needs)\n\nSchedule: Monday to Friday, core business hours (37.5 hours/week)\n\nWork Arrangement: Hybrid (4 days per week on-site, 1 day remote)\n\nAdvantages\nTier-1 Financial Enterprise Footprint: Drive high-visibility Agile delivery for foundational data and risk platforms within a premier financial institution.\n\nDual Contract Extensions / Conversion: Structured 6-month engagement with confirmed potential for multi-term contract renewals or full-time permanent conversion.\n\nStructured Onboarding Program: Step into the role seamlessly with an established 2-week onboarding and knowledge-transfer period.\n\nHigh-Impact Leadership Mandate: Own pod-level delivery governance, guide team formation, and facilitate critical Agile@Scale ceremonies across an established 10–15 person engineering team.\n\nResponsibilities\nCeremony Facilitation & Cadence: Plan, organize, and facilitate standard Agile cadences, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives.\n\nAgile@Scale & PI Planning: Lead Program Increment (PI) planning sessions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and align pod deliverables with broader enterprise release trains.\n\nFramework Flexibility: Dynamically pivot teams between Scrum and Kanban methodologies based on operational intake, platform maintenance, and enhancement delivery needs.\n\nDelivery Metric Tracking: Monitor and optimize key delivery metrics, with a strong focus on tracking work item cycle time, burndown velocity, and workflow bottlenecks.\n\nTooling Administration: Act as the primary administrator and champion for Jira and Confluence, maintaining crisp backlog hygiene, sprint boards, and documentation.\n\nCross-Functional Pod Leadership: Coach and mentor a pod of 10–15 developers, data engineers, and analysts; remove delivery blockers; foster self-organization; and drive continuous improvement.\n\nStakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with internal data business stakeholders, Product Owners, and architecture partners to clarify scope, manage expectations, and maintain delivery transparency.\n\nQualifications\nAgile Delivery Experience: 5–7 years of progressive professional experience serving as a dedicated Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead within technology-focused teams.\n\nAgile@Scale Proficiency: Proven hands-on experience facilitating Agile@Scale events, specifically leading PI Planning and managing cross-squad dependencies.\n\nDual Scrum & Kanban Mastery: Deep knowledge of Scrum principles paired with the practical agility to switch to Kanban workflows when managing maintenance or operational backlogs.\n\nJira & Confluence Expertise: Advanced proficiency utilizing Jira and Confluence for sprint tracking, board configuration, reporting, and team documentation (utilized ~95% of the time).\n\nLeadership & Team Formation: Demonstrated ability to build, stand up, and align new or transforming engineering pods into high-performing sprint teams; prior people management experience is a strong asset.\n\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical industry experience).\n\nCommunication & Problem-Solving: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with proven problem-solving abilities and executive presence.\n\nPreferred Assets & Nice-to-Haves\nDirect industry background within banking, financial services, or regulated corporate institutions.\n\nUnderstanding of enterprise Data Platform concepts, including Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), data lakes, data ingestion pipelines, and cloud data consumption models.\n\nExposure to cloud data platform modernization and migration initiatives.\n\nTechnical or coding background/literacy to facilitate informed discussions with software and data engineers.\n\nRecognized Agile credentials (e.g., CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM, or PMI-ACP).\n\nSummary\nIf you are a tech-savvy Scrum Master III who pairs 5–7 years of enterprise Agile delivery experience with strong Jira/Confluence mastery, Agile@Scale / PI Planning leadership, and a passion for optimizing high-throughput data platforms, this 6-month contract opportunity is an ideal next step. Bring your coaching precision, team-building energy, and delivery leadership to our client's platform team today!\n\nRandstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.\n\nRandstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. 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