IT Scrum Master

2 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**Role purpose**:
The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our IT operations Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company
The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching agile methods, and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity
This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution.
This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks

**Your responsibilities will include**:
Support the Product Owner in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations
Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team
Track and report on current status of all team members and the delivery
Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning
Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team

Relevant diploma / degree in Information Systems, or another related field
A total of at least five to eight years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be as a Scrum Master or Project Manager
Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
Experience working with agile methodologies

**Core competencies, knowledge, and experience**:
Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same
Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community
Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
Strong grounding in traditional project management practices
Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes

Closing date for Applications**: 22 May 2023**

The base location for this role is, **Midrand, Vodacom Campus**

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.

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