Cox Automotive

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About Dealertrack Dealertrack Canada is the leading provider of web-based software solutions and services for all major segments of the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and powersport retail industries. Dealertrack Canada serves dealers, lenders, OEMs, third-party retailers, agents and aftermarket providers with its comprehensive set of solutions including Sales/F&I products; market data for dealers, lenders and OEMs; and digital document services. Dealertrack Canada is a subsidiary of Dealertrack, which is owned and operated by Cox Automotive Canada. For more information about Dealertrack Canada, visit dealertrack.ca. Our Engineering Teams: At Cox Automotive Canada, we offer the chance to do your best work and help lead the digital revolution of the auto industry through agile innovation. Our engineering teams foster an agile environment where individuals recognize and value the importance of team success. Collaboration and passion are woven into the fabric of everything we do; you’ll be immersed in an environment that nurtures individualism, creative problem-solving, and intellect Job Summary: As an experienced SAFe Scrum Master in our Mississauga office, you will have the opportunity to be a part of an elite scrum team working in a collaborative environment. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple teams across the organization – moving impediments out of the way on your own teams and participating in Scrum adoption across the enterprise. You will also be leading the team to develop new products and services that will revolutionize how cars are purchased. As part of an Agile/Scrum team, the Scrum Master performs the critical role of Servant-Leader to the team. The Scrum Master uses their skills of collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching to support the development of our software applications, removing impediments while promoting the team’s self-management and continuous improvement. Key responsibilities: Leadership Act as servant-leader to an agile team; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity. Empower teams to self-organize. Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles. Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team. Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice. Ensure team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done. Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint. Coaching Coach team members to uphold scrum principles. Cultivate and environment of trust, good faith, empowerment and creativity. Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution. Communication/Tracking Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods. Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator. Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning. Collaboration Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints. Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business. Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments. Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization. Planning Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-for-work’ per the Product Owners priorities. Provide input to and participate in Release Planning. Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization. Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles. Qualifications: Assertiveness – able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems. Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight. Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals. Social – takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding. Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams. Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles. Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies. Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement. Conflict Resolution and ability to remove impediments. Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, etc. High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team. Agile Practices – expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding of scaled Agile environments. Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of software development and the software development lifecycle. College education in computer science or 3 years working in a software development environment. Minimum 3 years’ experience supporting a team as a Scrum Master. Experience working in an iterative Development environment, utilizing Scrum practices. Experience with XP development practices Experience with Scrum, Lean and/or XP inspired practices required Experience with continuous delivery preferred. Experience with SAFE framework Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Professional Designations One or more of the following relevant Agile certifications is required: CSM, CSPO, CSP, CSC, CST, Scrum.org, DSDM, ICAgile, PMI-ACP What we offer: Full time employment with one of the global leaders in automotive remarketing realm 5 weeks paid vacation per year Generous Insurance plan paid by Cox Automotive Canada (medical, dental, life, disability). RRSP contribution plan Venngo Discount programs Fast paced, multicultural work environment Career pathing – opportunity for development and advancement within Cox Automotive family of companies Opportunity for involvement with local communities though company sponsored volunteering program Cox Automotive Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers About Cox Automotive Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling and owning cars easier for everyone, while also enabling mobility services. The global company’s 34,000-plus team members and family of brands, including Autotrader®, Clutch Technologies, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions of car shoppers, tens of thousands of auto dealer clients across five continents and many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with revenues exceeding $20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.

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