Senior Scrum Master

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Paracon Full time

Work for a strong, dynamic and leading Financial Services organisation built on a proud heritage, the quality of its people and a passion for customers and communities. Our client is looking for a **Scrum Master** to join their team in **Cape Town** on a **contract** basis (**Hybrid** work model - 2 days onsite).

**Key Responsibilities**:
SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed.
- Senior Scrum Masters leads and facilitates the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
- Senior Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is managing the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, and implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices.
- Senior Scrum Master manages the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme.
- Manages the daily activities of the project, mentors the team and tracks and monitors the progress of the project.
- Facilitate team engagements for better efficiency of the team. Bringing stakeholders and the team closer to ensure total alignment on the 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.
- Acts as a safeguard for the team.
- 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.
- Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

Additional Job Description Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks example:

- Scrum, Kanban
- Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain other methodologies to motivate their team if needed.

**Location & Type**:

- This is a **Hybrid** role in Cape Town, with 2 days onsite.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Matric
- A relevant IT qualification
- Scrum certification


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