Scrum Master (Centurion)

DUTIES:

• Manage communication between Agile teams and Product Owners of internal and external business units to develop solutions that supports business needs.
• Help and coordinate the development and documenting of software requirements in collaboration with the Product Owners, Business Analysts, and team.
• Coordinate business objective delivery within agreed timelines.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with all team members and sponsors while managing time.
• Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership.
• Facilitate the team's progress toward team goals.
• Monitor and improve the team’s quality, predictability, flow, and velocity performance.
• Help the team focus on daily and sprint goals in the context of Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
• Teach problem-solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Facilitate all team meetings, including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective.
• Support the Product Owner in their efforts to create and manage the backlog in the team.
• Eliminate impediments.
• Help foster a culture of discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
• Build a high-performing team – focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.
• Help the team manage conflict.
• Help coordinate inter-team dependencies through coordination with other teams.
• Help the team understand how to estimate Stories, Features, and Capabilities.
• Facilitate team decisions and include correct stakeholders in team decisions.
• Assist Team Manager with monthly reporting.
• Monitor Support and BAU within teams.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Formal Scrum Master training and 5+ years’ experience as Scrum Master.
• Understanding of Software Development Project Management, particularly for Data Application Development.
• Computer literate, including competency with Jira, O365, Teams, and SharePoint, Excel, MS PowerPoint.
• Experienced working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
• Solid understanding of Lean and Lean principles and the ability to propagate this into the teams and the organisation.
• Experience in coordinating and facilitating events for teams working from home.
• Technical background (Development/DevOps domain).

Advantageous –

• Experience in data environment and investment and financial industry.
• Basic understanding of Software Engineering best practices and basic architecture concepts like service orientated architecture and object-orientated analysis and design.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Interest in future technologies and trends.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills.
• Innovative solution finding/problem-solving skills.
• Assessing and managing conflict abilities.
• Highly self-motivated and resourceful.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including both written and verbal.
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise in time-critical situations.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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