Agile Scrum Lead at Compugen Inc

About Compugen

Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us — it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen!

Our Culture

We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours.

If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us.

Position Overview: We are seeking an intermediate level Agile Scrum Lead who will support multiple Data & Analytics product teams by facilitating Agile delivery practices and ensuring effective execution of Scrum ceremonies. This 22 month contract role is focused on enabling team cadence and continuous improvement, rather than direct delivery ownership or resource management. The Scrum Lead will work with 1–4 concurrent product teams, partnering closely with Product Owners, analytics developers, and business stakeholders to maintain healthy backlogs, ensure sprint readiness, and drive efficient, predictable delivery. This is a Hybrid role and the successful candidate must reside in Saskatchewan

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies for assigned teams, ensuring consistency and effectiveness.
• Maintain well-defined, prioritized, and sprint-ready backlogs in Azure DevOps in collaboration with Product Owners.
• Ensure sprint commitments are clear, measurable, and achievable.
• Track and communicate sprint progress, risks, and impediments to stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement through actionable retrospectives and follow-through on improvements.
• Support coordination across multiple product teams to manage dependencies and delivery alignment.
• Promote and reinforce Agile best practices and team accountability.
• Provide visibility into team capacity, velocity, and delivery predictability

Skills & Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), or equivalent Agile certification
• Advanced Agile certifications (e.g., PSM II, PMI-ACP, SAFe Scrum Master)
• Training or certification in Agile coaching, facilitation, or Lean practices
• Microsoft Azure fundamentals or data/analytics-related certifications (e.g., Azure Data Fundamentals, Azure Data Engineer Associate)
• 2+ years of experience functioning as a Scrum Master or Agile Lead in a delivery environment.
• Proven experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies. (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)
• Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps. (Boards, backlogs, sprint tracking)
• Experience managing and maintaining Agile backlogs in collaboration with Product Owners.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple concurrent teams and manage competing priorities.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills

Equity Statement

At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table-and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality.\

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