Scrum Master

7 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Datonomy Solutions Full time

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team in Cape Town.

This is an initial 12-month hybrid contract - onsite 3 times a week.

The Scrum Masters 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.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or Management Information Systems
  • Foundational Agile certifications required.
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) OR Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
  • Relevant work experience: Must have 1-3 years as a scrum master
  • 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 board.

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