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Senior Scrum Master
4 years ago
Job Description
The IT Department of Ubisoft is currently looking for a Senior Scrum Master with solid experience in Project Management to guide the development team in charge with customer facing services, such as CRM, Customer Support, Digital Marketing and Community Management.
Customer Solutions activity has an international footprint and company-wide impact integrating virtually all Ubisoft’s online tools and services. The Senior Scrum Master’s role will be that of facilitator as she/he will guide the distributed Scrum organization (Montreal, Paris, and Bucharest), and encourage self-organization in order to ensure smooth, efficient, and quality-oriented development process so that the product evolutions meet clients’ expectations.
Relevant experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Scrum Master / Agile Coach or a Project Management position
- 5+ years of experience in the IT Industry
Knowledge
- Solid practical knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum or Kanban) and Agile practices (cross functional team dynamics, product and sprint backlogs, continuous integration, iterative and incremental development, scrum events, self-organizing teams)
- Experience on classic project management practices and fundamentals
- Command of information technology foundations (. software development, software automation, application architecture, hardware/infrastructure, authentication/authorization)
- Solid knowledge of common project management and collaboration tools (. MS Office, MS Project, Jira, Confluence)
- Demonstrated understanding of budgeting, scheduling and change management processes within Agile contexts
- Fluent in English.
Training
- Agile Scrum Master certification
- Project Management training/certification; PMP, is preferred;
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field is an asset.
The main responsibilities
- Drive high-quality results/deliveries through discipline and effective communication
- Ensure the administrative tasks, leadership and coaching necessary for the team to function under the Agile methodology
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and use them to spot means to help the team organize itself to deliver the sprint commitment from an early stage
- Coach team into a process of constant learning and reach a high level of efficiency in handling the tasks: understanding and adherence to the definition of “done”, best practices usage, collaboration
- Collaborate with the Product Owner / Business Champions and IT Manager in identifying and planning long- and short-term delivery flow strategy, priorities, objectives and requirements;
- Pro-actively perform risks management and mitigation strategy to ensure the impact on delivering according to the agreed planning is reduced at a minimum
- Track project KPI’s, escalate variances as necessary and elicit standard project deliverables as needed (. schedule, budget, RACI, process maps, risk registers);
- Define project communication plans and execute accordingly (. roadmap workshops, steering committees, release and sprint reports, project status reports);
- Manage team's impediments: both administrative and operational.
We offer:
We have salaries to motivate you, bonuses for your performances, medical services to keep you safe and sound, meal tickets to use them wherever you want and free access to relaxing and fitness room.
But most of all, we guarantee you’ll enjoy our atmosphere and working environment.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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