Description
Aviva Canada is seeking a highly motivated Scrum Master with strong Agile delivery, business, and technical acumen. As a Scrum Master, you will create an environment for teams to succeed within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and governance expectations.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate effective Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement.
- Enable reliable sprint planning and delivery by supporting clear Sprint Goals, capacity planning, estimation, and alignment of sprint commitments to the integrated delivery plan.
- Drive transparency through meaningful reporting, monitoring and communicating delivery progress using relevant measures.
- Remove impediments and manage dependencies, identifying blockers early and escalating material impediments within 24 hours.
- Coach the team and Product Owner, reinforcing Scrum accountabilities, Agile principles, and effective backlog management.
- Maintain Jira discipline and data quality, ensuring Epics, user stories, tasks, defects, dependencies, estimates, statuses, and sprint data are current and accurate.
- Manage risks, issues, and expectations, maintaining visibility of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Promote collaboration and resolve conflict, building open communication across the team, Product Owner, technical partners, stakeholders, and dependent teams.
- Support governance and compliance, helping the team work in alignment with Aviva Agile standards and the Aviva Change Framework.
- Champion continuous improvement, turning retrospective outcomes and delivery insights into specific improvement actions.
Requirements
- A Scrum Master certification such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
- Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master supporting software or technology delivery teams in a complex organization.
- Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile planning, estimation, flow, metrics, dependency management, and continuous improvement.
- Experience using Jira to manage backlogs, sprints, workflows, delivery data, and team-level reporting.
- Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and influencing skills.
- Ability to interpret delivery data, identify patterns, ask effective questions, and translate insights into practical actions.
- Experience working within delivery governance, risk management, and change-control expectations.
- Experience delivering in the insurance industry is required; Guidewire experience is preferred.
What you'll get
- The salary band for this position ranges from $100,000 to $125,000.
- Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.
- Outstanding Career Development opportunities.
- Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year.
- Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity, and inclusion.
- Corporate wellness programs to support employees' physical and mental health.
- Employee discount on home and auto insurance (where applicable).
- Hybrid flexible work model.