Job Description

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., (ACT) is a global Fortune 200 company. A leader in the convenience store and fuel space with over 16,700 stores in 31 countries, serving more than 9 million customers each day


It is an exciting time to be a part of the growing Data Engineering team at Circle K. We are driving a well-supported cloud-first strategy to unlock the power of data across the company and help teams to discover, value and act on insights from data across the globe. With our strong engineering expertise, this position will play a key role partnering with our Technical Development stakeholders to enable analytics for long term success.

About the role:


We are looking for a highly motivated Scrum Master with a passion for Agile methodologies to join our team. As the Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating the Agile Scrum process, coaching, and mentoring the team, and ensuring that the team is following the Scrum framework and Application Lifecycle Management practices. You will work closely with the product owners, developers, and stakeholders to ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies throughout each iteration cycle and implement agile best practices.
• Oversee other business analyst activities and provide guidance around user story creation, review, and necessary requirement approvals.
• Remove roadblocks and track team dependencies, work with product owner on backlog prioritization.
• Direct customer engagement, facilitating User Acceptance Testing, ensuring to gather the voice of the customer.
• Assist in the identification of high risk and error mitigation while promoting principles of standardization and simplification.
• Advocate for Agile Ways of Working and tools.
• Train current team members in process changes, system implementations and policy changes
• Act as coach and influence the team through shifts.
• Facilitate the Scrum process and coach the team on Agile methodologies.
• Guide the team to improve their productivity and ensure that they are meeting their goals Work with the product owners to prioritize the product backlog and ensure that the team is working on the highest value items first.
• Ensure that the team is following the Scrum framework and Data engineering & BI Management practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and identify areas where the team can improve their processes and practices.
• Work closely with the stakeholders to ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget.
• Facilitate team meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Remove any impediments that are blocking the team from making progress.
• Ensure that the team is maintaining transparency and visibility into their work.
• Partner with stakeholders across functional teams and units to build and continually improve/ optimize metrics

Qualifications:

• Degree in Statistics/Mathematics/Economics or any quantitative domain/MBA/MS or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• 5+ years of experience with Jira including reporting, creating issue filters, and boards for monitoring sprint progress.
• Familiar with Project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban & Scrumban).
• Significant experience coaching teams on the sizing of user stories, breaking out and estimating tasks, and writing test scripts.
• Knowledge of IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures, and technical standards - particularly as it relate to analytics.

Preferred Skills:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification is preferred


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