Agile Coach/scrum Master

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa eSoft Development and Technologies Full time

**The scope will include but will not be limited to**:

- Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, including product backlog refinement, preplanning, planning, daily stand-up’s, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
- Ownership and accountability of establishing Agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of projects and products.
- Establish and develop the businesses Agile delivery team.
- Coach and mentor team members on Agile ways of working, standards and best practices, such as Scrum, DevSecOps and SAFe.
- Represent the team interests towards relevant stakeholders and work out improvement for areas of tension within the Agile transformation.
- Configure and maintain Agile project management tools (Typically Atlassian Suite).
- Collaborate closely with Product Owner to prepare and clarify the product backlog.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Support the team to improve their technical work by reviewing results and establish lessons learned as well as track the improvement.
- Facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

**Minimum qualification required**:

- Relevant Degree or higher diploma
- Certified Scrum Master (PSM or CSM)
- 5+ IT and Financial industry experience essential
- 4-5 years’ experience within an Agile development environment as a Scrum Master
- Experience in a SAFe Agile environment will be advantageous.

**Competencies**:

- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile and Lean methodologies and the ability to propagate this into the teams and the organization
- Solid Agile coaching experience
- Strong Understanding of software development project management
- Strong skills with common DevSecOps tools and technologies (typically the Atlassian Suite)
- Experienced working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban or SAFe.
- Proven experience in leading teams with a Scrum delivery
- Strong communication, coaching and facilitation skills
- Able to exert influence without authority inside and outside the team
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal

**Key deliverables**:
Scrum Master Responsibilities contributing to the M365 Power Platform project agile delivery.

**Industry**
- Banking
- Financial services

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- IT and Financial industry: 4 years (preferred)
- Agile development environment as a Scrum Master: 5 years (preferred)

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