Senior Specialist: Scrum Master

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Description:

The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company
The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching agile methods, and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity
This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution
This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks
To look after the progress of work carried out in 2-3 squads

Job Responsibility:

Support the Product Owner in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations
Coach team members on Agile methods and technical practices (e.g., CI/CD, TDD, etc.)
Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team
Track and report on current status of all team members and the delivery
Facilitating key agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning
Identifying areas where processes can be improved and identify training needs.
Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team

Long Description:

Technical / professional qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other IT related field
A total of at least five years relevant experience of which at least 3 years needs to be as a Scrum Master
Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
Certified Agile coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFeCertified Scrum Master or similar
Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban
Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Prince 2, PMP advantages
JIRA/Confluence, experience preferred

Core competencies, knowledge and experience
Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same
Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community
Natural "servant" leader, with strong ability to coach and develop others, an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance
Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure
Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, SAFe and Kanban
Agile ceremonies, tools. and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators
User story definition and team backlog management
Backlog item estimation

Closing date for Applications
:16 June 2023
The base location for this role is,
Century City, Cape Town.
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.
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