Scrum Master-DXP
Requisition ID: 188501
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - Marketing
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Province: Ontario; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga / Stellarton
Location: Tahoe Office, Foord St. Office
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Scrum Master-DXP. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
As an Scrum Master-DXP with Sobeys, you will:
- Agile Process Facilitation: Responsible for facilitating Agile practices within the AEM development team, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles.
- Team Performance: Monitor and enhance team performance, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project goals.
- Sprint Planning: Organize and facilitate sprint planning meetings, ensuring that the team understands the goals and scope of each sprint.
- Daily Stand-ups: Lead daily stand-up meetings to track progress, address impediments, and promote team engagement.
- Retrospectives: Conduct sprint retrospectives to identify areas for improvement and implement actionable changes.
- Backlog Management: Assist the Product Owner in managing the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritized and clearly defined.
- Cross team/functional coordination - Coordinate and align the efforts of multiple Scrum Masters and Business stakeholders. This can involve project management activities ensuring cross-team dependencies, testing and integrations are managed effectively and that the collective work meets organizational goals.
- Track and Communicate Project Progress - Provide regular, clear and concise visibility to enhancement/project status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics) on as standard cadence through status reporting and project/resource reviews.
- Risk and Issue Management - Manage and appropriately escalate project/product issues and key decision points (KDPs). Facilitate solutions to technical, functional, process and business problems.
- Adaptability -Be flexible and adaptive, knowing when to apply agile practices and when to use traditional project management techniques.
- Ensure adherence to best practices in AEM development and deployment.
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What you have to offer:
Your experience and resume will show us:
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8 years of industry experience, with 3+ years in a Scrum/Project Lead role.
- Scrum Master certified (preferred (e.g. CSM, PSM)
- Professional certification preferred (CSM, PMP etc).
- Experience in application development lifecycle, support and delivery.
- Experience in working with outsourced service providers and vendor management.
- Retail industry experience preferred
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a DXP environment, with a strong focus on Adobe AEM.
- In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or other Agile project management tools
At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.