Scrum Master Project Manager (1894) SAP S/4HANA
Direct IT Recruiting Inc.Location: Mississauga, Ontario (Hybrid – 2 days/week onsite)
Contract Duration: 5 months, 40 hour work week
Skills: 7+ Years Agile Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Project Manager, JIRA, SAP S/4HANA, DevOps, SAFe, SASM, CSM, PMP
Rate: $90-94/hr
Industry: Healthcare, Supply Chain
Position Summary
The Scrum Master drives Agile delivery execution, planning, governance, Scrum of Scrums coordination,
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and cross-functional alignment across the Canada DevOps organization. This role ensures approved business priorities, project work, customer onboarding initiatives, and strategic delivery commitments are planned, coordinated, tracked, and reported effectively.
The role works closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, architects, Service Managers, and delivery teams to ensure transparent execution, predictable delivery, and alignment between approved priorities, cross-team dependencies, and available team capacity.
Agile Leadership
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and PI Planning activities.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and help remove delivery impediments that impact execution.
• Promote accountability, transparency, and execution discipline across delivery teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance delivery predictability and team effectiveness.
Delivery Planning and Execution
• Coordinate delivery activities across multiple projects, onboarding initiatives, and strategic workstreams.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, milestones, release schedules, and execution timelines.
• Track PI objectives, sprint commitments, and delivery progress against approved priorities.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and facilitate risk mitigation activities.
• Proactively identify, track, and escalate delivery risks, blockers, and dependency conflicts.
• Facilitate release readiness and deployment planning activities.
Backlog Planning and Readiness
• Ensure approved and prioritized work is prepared for execution.
• Coordinate backlog refinement activities with Product Owners and delivery teams.
• Maintain sprint and PI readiness by ensuring work items are properly defined, estimated, sequenced, and aligned to execution plans.
• Facilitate dependency identification and resolution across teams before and during execution.
• Monitor backlog health and planning readiness to support predictable delivery.
• Ensure alignment between approved priorities, team capacity, dependent workstreams, and committed delivery plans.
Capacity Planning and Demand Alignment
• Support quarterly planning and PI Planning activities.
• Maintain visibility of team capacity across projects, customer onboarding initiatives, enhancements, and strategic initiatives.
• Identify resource constraints, planning risks, and dependency-driven capacity impacts.
• Assist leadership with delivery forecasting and capacity analysis.
• Support trade-off discussions when capacity limitations or cross-team dependencies impact execution sequencing.
• Ensure execution plans remain aligned with approved business priorities and available capacity.
Scrum of Scrums and Cross-Team Dependency Coordination
• Facilitate or coordinate Scrum of Scrums sessions when multiple teams or workstreams have delivery interdependencies.
• Maintain visibility of cross-team dependencies, sequencing constraints, blockers, and required decisions across active initiatives.
• Ensure dependency owners, target dates, risks, and follow-up actions are clearly tracked and communicated.
• Coordinate dependency resolution across Product Owners, delivery teams, Service Managers, and stakeholder groups.
• Escalate unresolved cross-team dependencies or conflicting priorities through the appropriate governance forums.
• Provide consolidated dependency and execution-readiness reporting to support leadership decision-making.
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