Scrum Master

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (Sa) Ltd Full time
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. Job DescriptionScrum Masters are servant leaders, facilitator and coach for an Agile Team.

Scrum Masters help educate the team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed.

Scrum Masters facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

Let's Write Africa's Story Together Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job DescriptionScrum Masters are servant leaders, facilitator and coach for an Agile Team.

Scrum Masters help educate the team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed.

Scrum Masters facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

The Scrum Master's primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals.

Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching, and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile values and principles through practices.


  • Facilitate the team coordinating with other teams in the programme.
  • Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team.
  • Facilitate stakeholders and team engagement to ensure total alignment on work required.
  • Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
  • Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
  • Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery. Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
  • Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management. Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)

Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or Management Information SystemsFoundational Agile certifications required:
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

OR Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)Relevant work experience:
Must have 1-3 years as a scrum masterADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (PREFERRED, NOT A REQUIREMENT)

Additional:
Knowledge of agile way of working and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain and motivate their team if needed.
Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.

Ability to run and facilitate core events and activities:
Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools).

Making work visible though a Sprint boardRole specific certifications advantageous:
Industry standard certification, i

e CSM or PSMCOMPETENCIES REQUIRED:


Managing TasksDeveloping expertiseFollowing proceduresMeeting time scalesMaking decisionsDirecting peopleEmpowering individualsInteracting with peopleSkillsEducationMatriculation Certificate (Matric)Closing Date10 June 2024The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process. Please refer to the Old Mutual's Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail.

Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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