Scrum Master

2 weeks ago

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Role purpose:

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

Your responsibilities will include:

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
Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field
A total of at least five to eight years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be as a Scrum Master or Product Owner with agile teams
Experience in designing and delivering complex digital capabilities
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, XP, TDD, and BDD
Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Prince 2, PMP preferred
JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent 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 everimproving team dynamics and performance
  • Viewed by the wider organization as an effective and consistent collaborator, influencer, and negotiator, able to highlight internal and external dependencies and break down complex blockers
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
  • Excellent facilitation, organization, and problemsolving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fastchanging environments under pressure
  • Strong grounding in traditional project management practices
  • Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
  • Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
  • Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP. LSD, and FDD
  • Agile ceremonies, tools. and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators
  • User story definition and team backlog management
  • Backlog item estimation
  • Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
  • DevOps culture, processes. and tools
Closing date for Applications
:18 August 2023.
The base location for this role is,
Vodacom Midrand Campus.
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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