Scrum Master

 

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

SCRUMMASS

Date posted:

Monday, September 6, 2021

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Market related


SUMMARY:
Our client in the finance industry is looking for a Scrum Master to join their team.

POSITION INFO:

Our client in the finance industry is looking for a Scrum Master to join their team.


Duties and Responsibilities:

* Maintain a working knowledge of different products and related integration points and, is able to understand business and technical changes in order to anticipate cross-system or cross-process impacts.
* Facilitate different Scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives. Mentor on process and development practices and advocate with team for continuous improvement.
* Facilitate and coordinate with the wider stakeholders (PMBA, Dev, DB and QA team, respective leads and managers etc.) to do sprint planning for product delivery.
* Assist the team(s) towards achieving the day-to-day progress of sprint goals and release goals with regard to time, budget, scope and quality. By regularly monitoring and managing the metrics to meet release goals (Ex: Sprint, bugs and release burndown, team velocity…etc.)
* Work with Product Owner and business team to ensure product backlog is healthy and transparent and prioritize the list to generate higher business value. Co-ordinate with Product Owner for Product backlog management, concept grooming and continuous delivery of features.
* Facilitate the management of technical backlog (technical debts, refactoring tasks and POCs/prototypes needed etc.) and track progress of work against those backlogs. Work with architect, Dev. leads and scrum teams in distributed locations to drive technical refining, planning, issue resolution and development on those product specific technical debts.
* Facilitate the management of Bug/defect backlog by working with product management to prioritize and defer defects. Coordinate with other teams to identify risks and to clear roadblocks.

Key Skills
* Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get involved to ensure the work gets completed to schedule.
* Must be able to communicate well within his/her own teams and the broader Technology teams through verbal and written skills.
* Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.
* Proud to offer staff a range of opportunities to help them achieve their aspirations and grow, whether it’s conquering a new technology, learning about a new domain, speaking in public or moving into a leadership role.

  • Job Role: Scrum Master
  • Industry: IT / Telecommunications
  • Salary: Negotiable

Required Skills

5 Years of Experience
 
 
Qualifications
 
* Experience with Agile methodologies.
* A Scrum Master certification and/or presently practicing SCRUM.
* Strong experience in Agile Software Development Processes.
* Conceptual knowledge of the agile technical practices, such as TDD / BDD, Refactoring, CI, DevOps, and hands-on experience in few of them.
* Understands some of the popular industry tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc.).
* Actively learning and regularly upgrading self-knowledge on the agile principles, Scrum and product management.
* Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
* Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics.
* Able to support both the Delivery Manager / Product Manager in scaling the product and planning resources.

 

 
 


 

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