About the Role
The Enterprise Applications Delivery - Agile Practice Team is seeking a Scrum Master with strong organizational and coaching skills and familiarity with Scaled Agile practices to lead squads in our audio and video editing tool replacement project. This role will guide and coach teams, support the transition to Agile in technical teams, ensure squad focus and effectiveness, and partner with Project teams and Project Managers to ensure priorities are known. You will be an agent of change, introducing agile practices that will ensure focus, transparency, and collaboration, and collaborate with other Scrum Masters to support Enterprise Applications in their Agile Transformation.
Responsibilities
- Guide and coach multiple multidisciplinary Squads to implement Scaled Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality digital/media products.
- Facilitate team-level events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives) ensuring continuous alignment with product vision and sprint goals.
- Maintain team focus, flow, and predictability while embedding rigorous quality standards (100% Definition of Done).
- Build a trusting, safe, and transparent environment focused on continuous improvement, autonomy, and open problem-solving.
- Actively participate in program-level orchestration and scaled alignment events (such as PI Planning, Program Syncs, and Cross-Team Demos).
- Partner closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads, Architects, and Agile Delivery Leads to ensure backlog readiness, dependency mapping, and clear priority execution.
- Support the organizational transition from traditional project delivery to a product-led operating model, navigating hybrid environments smoothly when required.
- Identify, surface, and resolve daily impediments and cross-team dependencies, escalating systemic blockers through program governance when needed.
- Drive the successful implementation and adoption of the enterprise Product Operating Model by guiding teams through their core transformation steps.
- Act as a proactive agent of change, breaking down operational silos and fostering a shared product culture across business and technology domains.
- Leverage delivery metrics, visual management boards, and transparent reporting to track agile maturity progression and team performance.
- Support, coach, and mentor other Scrum Masters across the enterprise practice, facilitating knowledge sharing, community alignment, and elevating overall scaled agile maturity.
- Collaborate within the Agile & Transformation practice to foster consistency in tooling, team working agreements, and scaled delivery standards.
- Contribute to the continuous refinement, evolution, and local enablement of the organization’s Agile Playbook and transformation practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in large projects, with 3 years in a Scrum Master/Coach role.
- Deep knowledge of agile practices, frameworks, and techniques, including Scaled Agile.
- Good knowledge of broadcast concepts and conversion projects are an asset.
- Experience with agile planning and development tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence).
- Ability to lead and coach bilingual/remote teams.
- Bilingualism (English and French) is a requirement.
- Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
- A mandatory Criminal record check.
- Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.
Skills
- Scaled Agile practices
- Organizational skills
- Coaching skills
- Agile practices
- Frameworks
- Techniques
- Scaled Agile
- Broadcast concepts
- Conversion projects
- Agile planning tools
- Development tools
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Leading bilingual/remote teams
- English (Reading - C - Advanced)
- English (Speaking - C - Advanced)
- English (Writing - B - Intermediate)
- French (Reading - C - Advanced)
- French (Speaking - C - Advanced)
- French (Writing - B - Intermediate)
- Strong communication skills (both written and oral)
- Excellent team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Good general knowledge and intellectual curiosity
- Familiarity with current trends and industry best practices
- Self starter with strong ability to lead through influence
- Analytical mind
- Open-minded approach to problem solving
- Creative
- Innovative
- Ability to multitask and deal with concurrent and/or conflicting priorities
Location
- Montreal, Quebec
- Toronto, Ontario
- Telework/Hybrid
Work Type
- Contractee Long-Term (Fixed Term)
- Hybrid
- Full time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in large projects
- 3 years in a Scrum Master/Coach role
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
Benefits
- Four weeks of vacation per year
- Work from home opportunities
- Competitive total rewards package
- Opportunities to work with cutting edge technology
- Opportunities for continued learning and professional development - including access to e-learning services, customized courses and certification opportunities
- Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups
- A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected
- A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity
About the Company
- At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms.
- Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
- Technology & Infrastructure (T&I) is the backbone and the future-forward arm of CBC/Radio-Canada.
- Our purpose is to constantly innovate to evolve and maintain the Corporation’s technology and infrastructure.
- We are the people that make stuff work.
- We make connections between media content, systems, people and places.
- CBC/Radio-Canada has always been a highly regarded pioneer of media technology — not just in Canada but around the world.
- Today, we are transforming ourselves into a modern and agile public service media organization.
- Technology is the driving force, and we are the team making it happen.
- As part of this transformation, Innovation & Delivery is undertaking a large infrastructure project, with a goal to modernize our broadcasting capabilities.
- The Enterprise Applications Agile Practice team is supporting this program.
Equal Opportunity
- CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity.
- That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country.
- That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster.
- For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website.
- If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.
- You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website.
- All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment.
- We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest.
- In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
