Scrum Master

1 week ago


Cape Town, South Africa RealmDigital Full time

**Our Philosophy**

At Realm Digital, we imagine, then build. We are passionate about technology and all things digital.

Our mission is to deliver excellent technology, excellently by offering innovative technology and digital solutions to our clients by partnering with them.

**About the Role**

As a Scrum Master, you will be an integral part of a squad, collaborating closely with the Product Owner to facilitate processes that ensure value delivery. Acting as a servant leader and coach, you will guide squad members in adopting agile methodologies, removing impediments, and fostering an environment of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

- Guide Product Owners in discovery through agile techniques like journey maps, assisting in defining MBI/MVP for larger epics.
- Support PI Planning by facilitating team breakouts and backlog identification, ensuring alignment with Sanlam's ecosystem.
- Facilitate backlog refinement sessions to slice features into user stories within each iteration.
- Manage iterations in alignment with release management schedules, updating iteration boards and ensuring healthy burn-down of user stories.
- Conduct daily stand-ups for alignment on daily goals and progress tracking.
- Coordinate iteration planning sessions to plan upcoming work and address impediments.
- Represent squads in sync meetings, ensuring alignment and adjusting for technical dependencies.
- Collaborate with End-to-End teams and support structures to ensure smooth squad functioning.
- Facilitate iteration demos and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement and learning.

Qualifications:

- Relevant IT Qualification (Degree or Diploma) preferred
- Scrum Master certification advantageous

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 2 years in a fully Agile and DevOps environment
- Experience with dashboards, KPI/metrics, burn-down charts, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes

Knowledge:

- Proficiency in engineering practices, Scrum principles, Agile methodology, and sprint methodology
- Familiarity with Behavior Driven Development, product development processes, and project management

Personal Attributes:

- Action-oriented and decisive
- Effective planner and aligner
- Proficient in optimizing work processes
- Demonstrates decision quality
- Balances stakeholder needs effectively
- Builds and fosters effective teams
- Collaborates seamlessly within and across teams
- Department
- Project Management
- Locations
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote


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