Scrum Master

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Job Crystal Full time

-South Africa, Western Cape

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- Market Related

**Area**: South Africa, Western Cape

**Sector**: FinTech
Posted: 1 February 2024

**Job Details**:
**SPECIFICATION**

**Location**: Cape Town (Hybrid)

**Responsibilities**
- Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity
- Facilitate and monitor Sprint ceremonies
- Facilitating getting work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitate the communication across different delivery teams to resolve dependencies and impediments
- Drive learnings across teams to help accelerate experimentation and maturity
- Driving effective change by monitoring and maintaining the Impediment and Retro Action backlogs
- Assisting with internal communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Assist Product Management to prioritise and predictably deliver key roadmap initiatives by regularly reviewing the relevant metrics (Velocity, Control Charts, CFDs)
- Maintain and evolve the Coaching Framework for relevant teams
- Work closely with the development teams, product owners, and project team to pinpoint existing process flaws and identify an agile improvement roadmap to support consistent predictable delivery.
- Research and iteratively implement agile tools and techniques that can benefit a team
- Work with product owners to protect the current sprint commitments
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it

**Requirements**:

- Degree/Diploma or other relevant qualification.
- A Scrum Master certification (CSM) is preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Ability to predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner.
- Relationship management skills with the ability to influence.
- Diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work under own initiative.
- Analytical & logical
- Ability to work in a fluid agile manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to adapt and prioritise
- Ability to understand technical and business requirements
- SQL capabilities
- Background in software development (preferred)
- Configuration tools (i.e. JIRA; Confluence)
- Group facilitation approaches (i.e. conflict resolution, effective teamwork, etc.)
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Proven ability to work independently without supervision whilst driving decisions in a collaborative fashion
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
- Strong Communication and mentorship skills
- Strong Leadership skills
- Resilience
- Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills


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