Scrum Master

Career Opportunity

Libro is growing - and Libro is hiring.

Our expansion plans include a series of new hires across the organization. Take a look.

www.libro.ca/careers

Who We Are

Imagine working for an organization where every employee and customer is an Owner.

No matter whether a customer Owner or employee Owner, everything we do at Libro is about helping people prosper. We recruit and develop high-quality candidates like you who are ready to offer the best possible advice, coaching and service, when and how our Owners need it.

Libro invests heavily in the development and career ambitions of our staff. Our hiring philosophy is focused on finding candidates who carry a positive attitude, a desire to learn, and a passion for helping our staff and Owners (customers) grow financial confidence. We commit to teaching and supporting you as you learn the skills you need.

What Opportunity Awaits?

As we continue to grow, Libro is on a mission to find a passionately accountable full-time Scrum Master supporting our London Administration location.

The Scrum Master is responsible for leading Product, Platform, and Project Teams to create and deliver high-quality solutions and services while simultaneously maximizing productivity and ensuring exceptional quality. This role influences and facilitates coaching, creativity, self-improvement, and empowerment for the team, educating them in Agile methodologies, and ensures the agile process is being followed to achieve team goals. The Scrum Master also helps identify and remove impediments while fostering an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

Note

• There are three vacancies: two contract positions for one year and one full-time permanent position.
• This position is eligible for Libro’s work from home program.
  
  

The Successful Candidate Will

• Coach and guide the team and organization on how to use scrum, agile practices and methodologies, and Kanban, as well as other tools for effective project management.
• Oversees the overall scrum and agile process for assigned teams and ensures the theory, practices, rules, and values of agile are being followed.
• Facilitates daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and planning meetings in a way that ensures full engagement of the team they are supporting.
• Establishes an agile mindset within the team through conversations, coaching, and various exercises. Always promotes innovative thinking and self-improvement.
• Collaborates to promote best practices, lessons learned and ensuring agile team alignment.
• Supports the Product Owner or team lead to facilitate discussion on prioritization and timing of new releases and changes that the team is launching.
• Limits impediments to the team's success, such as cultural barriers or logistical challenges, supporting the Product Owner/leader, and ensuring that the squad’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders through ongoing internal communication and key results reporting.
• Facilitates and supports product and backlog planning to ensure clear prioritization and alignment with team goals.
• Understands and communicates the vision for the experience they are building towards and engages beyond process e.g. in solution design, customer feedback and testing, understanding of data/insights.
• Cultivates a trusting environment where issues can be raised without fear of negative consequences.
• Understands context of the business and the technology sufficiently to problem-solve with the team, asks the right questions and owns solution quality and continuous delivery to customer.
• Creates and maintains visual management tools in close collaboration with the team (Kanban boards, objectives and key results, etc.).
  
  

Could this be you? Are you ready to join an exciting team at Libro?

• Do you have a passion that aligns with Libro’s Purpose? We want to strengthen financial well-being for a better tomorrow and we’re looking for people to join us in making a difference to people, businesses, and communities.
• Do you display the Libro values of Accountability, Courage, High Performance and Inclusive Mindset?
• Do you have a post-secondary degree or diploma in IT, Computer Science or related discipline?
• Do you have demonstrated direct leadership experience; project leadership, working in a financial services industry?
• Do you have a Certified SCRUM Master designation (or to be completed within 12 months of accepting the role)?
  
  

Some of the ways we show Libro is an outstanding employer:

• Competitive salaries and employee pension plans.
• Comprehensive benefit package, with all premiums paid for by Libro!
• Generous vacation time.
• Employee wellness programs.
• Staff accounts and staff rates on products and services.
• Staff appreciation programs and awards.
• Career development opportunities including tuition assistance.
• Many great perks and rewards; fitness club discounts, technology offers, travel and entertainment deals, just for being part of our great team! 
  
  

If you're passionate about helping your community, interested in being part of a remarkable team, and want to do your part to strengthen financial well-being for a better tomorrow - we want to hear from you!

With a purpose beyond profit, Libro Credit Union is proud to be a Certified B Corporation, joining leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good.

Libro is committed to fostering a safe, healthy, and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. As an inclusive employer we are committed to providing a fully accessible recruitment process. Email us at [email protected] any time during the recruitment process to let us know what supports you may need to be successful.