Sbi Scrum Master

Who are we?
The Sanlam Retail Affluent business (SRA) is dedicated to empower South Africans in the middle
- and upper-income segments to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. With deep client understanding and a focus on excellence in technology, client and intermediary experiences, SRA delivers financial solutions including comprehensive financial planning, life
- and disability insurance, credit solutions, savings and investments, retirement and fiduciary services that can be accessed through various platforms. Role Description
You will be responsible for the overseeing and providing guidance to the scrum teams in BI. The additional responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices
Mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

**Output/Core Tasks**:
Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams
Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process)
Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Manage each project’s scope and timeline
Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
Coach team members in Agile frameworks
Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
Help teams implement changes effectively
Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity What will make you successful in this role?

**Role Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
Certified Scrum Master
3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban etc. to deliver solutions would be essential
Leadership and management experience. Excellent people and project management skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
Knowledge of various toolsets such as Wherescape, Cloudera, Informatica Data Quality Suite and Data Vault will be advantageous.
Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation
Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management
Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
Experience in delivering BI products preferable

**Knowledge and Experience**:
Bachelor's degree and 3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Knowledge of scrum principles
Product development process knowledge
Agile methodology
Sprint methodology and project management
Reporting and Administration

**Competencies**:
A proactive self-starter
Excellent written and oral communication skills
A strategic mindset,
Client focused
Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for building new data services, offerings and solutions.
Attention to detail with self-discipline,
Strong ownership and accountability
Takes initiative on work-related matters; proactively
Ability to drive your ideas throughout the business, influencing others to understand the value in your opinions.
Personal Attributes Interpersonal savvy - Contributing dependently Decision quality - Contributing dependently Plans and aligns - Contributing dependently Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently Build a successful care