Arobas personnel is looking for a Manager, Business Analyst & Scrum Master for a contract with one of our clients located in Toronto, Montreal or Laval.
What You’ll Do
As Manager, Business Analysis & Agile Delivery, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Scrum Masters and Technical Data Product Owners / Business Analysts, supporting the successful delivery of data and business intelligence initiatives across a global organization.
You will combine strong people leadership, business analysis expertise, and Agile delivery practices to improve execution, visibility, collaboration, and overall team performance.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 25 employees and contractors, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable culture.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to Scrum Masters and Technical Data Product Owners / Business Analysts.
- Establish, standardize, and continuously improve Business Analysis and Agile/Scrum practices, including requirements gathering, documentation, and source-to-target mapping.
- Oversee the translation of business requirements into clear and actionable technical deliverables for Data, BI, and Analytics initiatives.
- Strengthen Jira governance, project visibility, delivery tracking, and reporting.
- Coordinate multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously, ensuring priorities, timelines, and resources remain aligned.
- Monitor team capacity and resource allocation to balance workloads and focus on high-value initiatives.
- Act as an escalation point for project challenges, scope clarification, delivery risks, and cross-functional alignment.
- Partner closely with data engineers, product teams, technology leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery.
- Promote strong stakeholder engagement and serve as a trusted partner between business and technology teams.
- Support the recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and professional development of team members.
- Collaborate effectively with distributed teams across North America, Europe, India, and Mexico.
What You’ll Need
- 8+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Agile delivery, project/program management, or data-related initiatives.
- Minimum 3 years of leadership or management experience, ideally overseeing multidisciplinary or distributed teams.
- Strong knowledge of Business Analysis practices and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience leading or supporting Scrum teams and managing multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Good understanding of Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Analytics environments. Deep hands-on technical expertise is not required.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and improve BA, Agile, governance, and delivery processes.
- Experience working with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and/or Azure DevOps.
- Excellent people leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working with global or geographically distributed teams is highly valued.
- Strong focus on accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and employee development.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Technology, or a related field.
- Certifications such as CSM, PMI-ACP, CBAP, or similar credentials are considered an asset.
Work Environment
- Collaboration with global teams requires availability primarily during Eastern Time (EST) business hours, with some flexibility when needed.
- The position is initially remote.
- Preferred locations are the Greater Toronto or Montréal/Laval areas.
- Candidates must be open to relocation if required upon conversion to a permanent full-time position.
• • French is not required.
