Scrum Master

5 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa GMC Talent (Pty) Ltd Full time

We are looking for a Scrum Master to assist Company to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, and identifying and eliminating impediments and facilitation flow.

**Responsibilities**:

- Person will be coach for an Agile Team, the role will be responsible to help educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed.
- You will be in the role of a Team Facilitator and is continuously improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. You will help the team focus on creating increments of value each iteration and achieving daily and iteration goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives
- Facilitate team events, including, where applicable, the daily stand-up, iteration planning, iteration review, and iteration retrospective ensures they are productive and kept within the timebox.
- Assist the team in preparation for key activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
- Coordinates with other teams to improve communications and relationships.
- Scrum Master supports the team in addressing and eliminating issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.
- Help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions and facilitates the team retrospective. Teach problem-solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
- Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance and coach the team in self-management. Help the team resolve interpersonal conflicts and challenges and identify opportunities for growth. Escalate people problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; helps individuals foster the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
- The Scrum Master supports the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organisation.
- The Scrum Master works with other Scrum Master and stakeholders to help the team contribute towards improving the overall development Value Stream.

Experience and Qualification:

- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Science Technology
- Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance)
- 5+ years’ experience leading teams as a Scrum master in Agile environment in Financial Services or Consulting
- Experience as part of an Agile software delivery team as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, Agile Project Manger

Knowledge and Skills:

- Group facilitation approaches
- Good knowledge of servant leadership Scrum/agile software development methodologies Software development
- Coding and designing Business process and analysis
- Product backlog understanding and management User stories knowledge

Competencies:

- Working with people and teams Persuading and influencing Decisiveness
- Creative and innovative thinking Development orientation Effective communication Enabling team success Interpersonal effectiveness

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- Scrum Master: 5 years (required)

License/Certification:

- Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance) (required)

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