Intermediate Scrum Master

1 day ago

Midrand, South Africa Aretec Full time

Gauteng, Midrand
- Hourly Basic Salary

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies**: Lead and facilitate key Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- **Team Support and Coaching**: Act as a servant leader, coaching and mentoring development teams on Scrum practices, Agile principles, and continuous improvement.
- **Remove Obstacles**: Identify and proactively remove any blockers or impediments preventing the team from achieving their goals.
- **Collaboration and Communication**: Foster strong communication between team members, stakeholders, and product owners to ensure transparency and alignment throughout the sprint.
- **Track and Report Progress**: Monitor team progress and health, using tools like Jira or Trello to ensure that the sprint goals are being met and provide relevant updates to stakeholders.
- **Continuous Improvement**: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement, helping the team to reflect on their processes and strive for better performance in each sprint.
- **Stakeholder Management**: Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog is well-defined, prioritized, and aligns with business goals.
- **Conflict Resolution**: Help resolve conflicts within the team, promoting healthy collaboration and teamwork.
- **Promote Agile Best Practices**: Advocate for Agile best practices, ensuring that Scrum frameworks are adhered to and that team members understand their roles within the Scrum process.

**Required Skills & Qualifications**:

- **Experience**: Minimum of 4-6 years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile coaching role.
- **Scrum Certification**: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or other equivalent Agile certification (e.g., PSM I).
- **Strong Communication**: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- **Problem-Solving**: Ability to identify and resolve issues proactively, with a focus on solutions that support the team’s success.
- **Agile Knowledge**: Solid understanding of Agile principles, Scrum methodology, and other related frameworks
- **Tool Proficiency**: Familiarity with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
- **Facilitation Skills**: Strong facilitation skills to lead meetings, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.
- **Collaboration**: Proven ability to work effectively with product owners, developers, and other stakeholders in an Agile environment.
- **Data management**: experience in areas of data management is preferable
- **Microsoft certifications**:added advantage

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- **Experience with Scaling Agile**: Experience in scaling Scrum or Agile processes to larger teams or across multiple teams (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, or similar frameworks).
- **Technical Understanding**: Basic understanding of software development and technical processes to support development teams in technical discussions.
- **Coaching and Mentorship**: Experience coaching individuals and teams to improve Agile maturity.

For more information please contact:
Sfundo Shoba

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