**Dawn InfoTek Inc.** is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.
We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of **Scrum Master / Business Analyst** to join our dynamic team for our client, one of the major banks.
• *Project Management and Methodology**
- Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
- Acts as a central point of communication, ensuring that the BAs collaborate seamlessly with internal/external stakeholders and development teams.
- Identifies and remove impediments that could hinder the team's progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.
- Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input
- Defines, manages and enforces scrum process and methodology
- Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.
- Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others
• *Business Analysis**
- Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
- Experience creating cost benefit analyses
- Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
- Experience designing services and business processes for new business areas
- Experience creating processes, swimlanes etc according to industry standard techniques and methodologies
- Experience facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications
• *Project Planning and Coordination**
- Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple projects
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope, schedule, and resources)
- Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates
- Track project level Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
- Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
- Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning
• *Communications**
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to; reports, reviews, assessments
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
- Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner
• *Education**
Associate's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• *Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
• *Salary**: $100.00-$110.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Toronto, ON M5G 2C8: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Application question(s):
- Are you legally working in Canada?
• *Education**:
- DCS / DEC (preferred)
• *Experience**:
- Business analysis: 5 years (required)
- IT enterprise: 7 years (required)
- Scrum Master: 3 years (required)
- IT project management: 5 years (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5G 2C8
