Scrum Master

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Allan Gray Full time

**Job Summary**:

- Allan Gray Institutional IT team is around 65 members, covering a range of skills and responsibilities. The team operates with four business-aligned domains (Font Office, Middle Office, Fund Operations and Client Servicing). Additionally, we have a technical IT domain and IT Operations teams supporting the work of the business-aligned teams.
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master to join our team. As a Scrum Master, you will lead and manage the delivery of multiple software development agile projects in a timely, controlled, and predictable manner. Additionally, you will ensure Scrum is understood and enacted. Working in close collaboration with team leaders, you will be responsible for coaching the software development teams to self-organise, create valuable software products, and remove impediments to the development process.-
**Responsibilities**:

- Managing the end-to-end delivery of software projects, establishing and controlling project constraints and scope
- Develop and maintain effective and proactive relationships with all project stakeholders and third parties
- Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the software delivery process and the ownership of the product(s) - lead the team to a self-organised state
- Ensure that the scrum team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.
- Organise and help execute the Scrum framework: Scrum meetings (i.e., daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and metrics (burndown charts, predictability metrics)
- Support the domain/product owners in maintaining and developing processes, standards, tools and reporting and their documentation and proactively reviewing the service provided to business stakeholders
- Providing clear ownership for and visibility of the resolution of all project risks and impediments
- Providing regular, constructive feedback to project team members and their line managers
- Lead continuous improvements of project delivery and Scrum processes.
- Ensuring the decisions made on the projects are documented and comply with governance requirements
- Setting project goals and developing plans to meet those goals
- Maintaining project timeframes, budgeting estimates and status reports for distribution to management
- Fostering good communication and teamwork within the team

**Skills, Competencies and Expertise**:

- Experienced (preferably certified) Scrum Master, with exposure to other project frameworks
- Experienced in the delivery of projects in an agile environment
- Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated, and flexible with an adaptive leadership style
- Able to work independently, excellent personal organisation and able to demonstrate consistently balanced good judgement and logical thought prioritisation
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including facilitation and coaching, and able to lead and influence others without authority inside and outside the team
- Ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict effectively.
- Committed to the development of all team members and continuous development of capability within the department
- Have a real interest in problem-solving and focused on results
- Experience in the use of tools and techniques to facilitate effective project delivery
- Exposure to or awareness of all phases of software development projects, including analysis, systems design, development, and testing approaches
- Highly observant and an expert at root cause analysis
- Humble and lead through Servant Leadership. Recognise the value in all team members and lead by example.
- Experience in technologies relevant to the financial services sector

**Education**:

- Relevant Tertiary Education and / or Scrum Certification
- Min of 5 years’ experience in a Scrum or project management role

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