The Scrum Master is a hands-on delivery leadership role responsible for enabling high-performing Agile teams while remaining actively engaged in day-to-day execution. This role combines Scrum facilitation, delivery management, operational coordination, dependency tracking, release readiness, and stakeholder alignment. The Scrum Master partners closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, infrastructure, security, operations, and business stakeholders to keep delivery predictable and unblocked.
This role is designed for a proactive, high-energy skilled who does not only facilitate ceremonies, but also drives outcomes, follows through on actions, removes impediments, strengthens team collaboration, and helps the team continuously improve its delivery flow.

Agile Delivery Leadership and Scrum Excellence
Facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Coach the team on Agile values, Scrum principles, transparency, inspection, adaptation, and continuous improvement.
Support prioritization conversations by making capacity, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs transparent.
Stay close to the team's daily work by actively monitoring Jira boards, sprint progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, and action items.
Coordinate with external teams such as network, database, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations to remove delivery barriers.
Create, track, and follow up on operational requests in Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence, or similar enterprise delivery tools.
Build tight collaboration across stakeholders to avoid silos between business and IT.
Provide timely and transparent status updates covering progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required support.
Stay close to customers, users, and stakeholders to capture feedback and maintain alignment with business outcomes.




Support release planning, deployment coordination, change management activities, approvals, evidence collection, and communication when required.
Help validate readiness across DEV, QA, UAT, and production release milestones.
Ensure delivery artifacts, approvals, risks, and go-live readiness items are traceable and audit-ready.
Team Health, Coaching, and Continuous Improvement
Ensure retrospective actions are documented, owned, implemented, and reviewed for measurable impact.
Scrum Master Success Habits
Reinforce Scrum values while empowering the team to self-organize and own delivery outcomes.
Stay close to the team's work through Jira, progress tracking, blocker management, and daily follow-up.
Enable fast pivots by helping the team assess impact, reprioritize work, and maintain delivery momentum.
Build strong collaboration across business and IT so work is not delayed by silos or unclear ownership.
Foster connection through in-person and virtual interactions that strengthen team cohesion.
Maintain alignment with customers, users, and stakeholders through regular feedback loops.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

- Master's degree considered as an asset.
- 5 years in a Business Analyst role within a Financial Services Institution with experience in Risk domain projects
- Good knowledge of financial risks and processes in Risk technology
- Strong technical and data analytical skills,



experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure Databricks.
- Good understanding of current IT practices, systems development techniques, especially requirements specification and testing methodologies
- University degree or technical institute certificate or related work experience.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
Remote-friendly work environment will provide you with the flexibility to perform at your best.
Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs
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