Scrum Master

7 months ago

Centurion, South Africa Momentum Investments Full time

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

**Role Purpose**
- Ensure well established high-performing team dynamics, a continuous flow, and an exponential improvement in processes.**Requirements**:

- Formal Scrum Master training and 2-3 years’ experience as Scrum Master.
- Computer literate, including competency with Jira, O365, Teams, and SharePoint, Excel, MS Powerpoint.
- Experienced working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
- Solid understanding of Lean and Lean principles and the ability to propagate this into the teams and the organisation.
- Experience in data environment and investment and financial industry will be an advantage.
- Basic understanding of software engineering best practices and basic architecture concepts like service orientated architecture and object-orientated analysis and design will be an advantage.
- Interest in future technologies and trends.
- Experience in coordinating and facilitating events for teams working from home.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Manage communication between agile teams and product owners of internal and external business units to develop solutions that supports business needs.
- Help and coordinate the development and documenting of software requirements in collaboration with the product owners, Business Analysts, and team.
- Coordinate business objective delivery within agreed timelines.
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with all team members and sponsors while managing time.
- Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership.
- Facilitate the team's progress toward team goals.
- Monitor and improve the team’s quality, predictability, flow, and velocity performance.
- Help the team focus on daily and sprint goals in the context of Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
- Teach problem-solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
- Facilitate all team meetings, including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective.
- Support the Product Owner in their efforts to create and manage the backlog in the team.
- Eliminate impediments.
- Help foster a culture of discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
- Build a high-performing team - focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.
- Help the team manage conflict.
- Help coordinate inter-team dependencies through coordination with other teams.
- Help the team understand how to estimate Stories, Features, and Capabilities.
- Facilitate team decisions and include correct stakeholders in team decisions.
- Assist Team Manager with monthly reporting.
- Monitor Support and BAU within teams.

**Competencies**
- Excellent people management and leadership skills.
- Innovative solution finding/problem-solving skills.
- Assessing and managing conflict abilities.
- Highly self-motivated and resourceful.
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including both written and verbal.
- Comfortable working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise in time-critical situations.
- Technical background (Development/DevOps domain).

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