Agile Master

Our client requires the services of a **Delivery Assurance Manager (Advanced) - Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office Rotation**
- **Amazing brand with cutting edge technology**:

- **Excellent teams in Global team collaboration**:

- **High work-life balance with Flexible hours**:

- **Agile working environment**

**POSITION**:Contract until December 2026

**COMMENCEMENT**:As soon as possible

**QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE**
- 4-6 years experience in more than one Agile Team
- At least 5 years experience in the IT/Software DevOps industry
- IT/Business degree
- At least two of the following:

- Professional Scrum Master IIITM
- Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master® (scrumalliance.org)
- Scale Professional Scrum (scrum.org)
- MS Office tool (Excel, Word, project, Viso & PowerPoint) and JIRA/Confluence

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS**
- Ability to manage a technical team using Agile Methodologies
- Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and improving transparency.
- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques in the Scrum approach (e.g., numerous Burndown techniques, retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.). Problem solving capabilities.
- Ability to work as part of a team within the Agile Working Methodology
- Ability to interdependently and submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
- Excellent interpersonal & organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (Both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues/users.
- Engage with foreign customers with consideration for cultural differences/languages

**ADVANTAGEOUS**
- Level 1 process integration knowledge across multiple SAP Modules
- Level 1 technical (Incl. infrastructure) integration knowledge across multiple technologies.
- Cloud computing technologies, business drivers and emerging computing trends.
- Micro services
- Test Driven Development
- Project Management qualification
- Willing and able to travel internationally.
- Flexibility to take up different tasks and be willing to work on weekends and public holidays for the implementation of operation (IT Support) related tasks.

**ROLE**:

- Provides active and regular mentorship to other Agile Masters
- Supports multiple Feature Teams in complex Products/Sub-Products up to Domain level.
- Provides key insights into the evolution of Agile KPIs in complex Agile teams to improve efficiencies at an organisational level.
- Aligns within broader teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding outcomes.
- Collaborates with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.
- Gives structure to workshops and meetings to lead and facilitate the teams Agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
- Assesses the agile maturity of the team and organisation and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects.
- Assists with the internal and external communication and improving transparency.
- Demonstrates the status/performance of the team as a key element.
- Supports the Product Owner with grooming processes and product backlog management.
- Assists with the project and team coordination tasks when required.
- Creates Effort Estimation/Offers based on business requirements.
- Execution according to the Agile Methodology and attending of all team meetings, including Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings.
- Daily use of the Agile tool chain, as per the updates required by the respective feature team(s).

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