Scrum Master

6 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Drive and co-ordinate agile practices within the team to ensure that the team delivers value iteratively
- Run daily meetings to track progress and keep team focused on delivery goals
- Plan and facilitate technical sessions and retrospectives.
- Implement lessons learned to drive progress
- Implement initiatives to ensure the team deliver against the roadmap and achieve KPIs.
- Track team, product and business metrics to ensure that KPIs are being achieved.
- Analyse trends to understand team cadence and velocity.
- Communicate with internal teams to understand dependencies and remove obstacles

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Must have a relevant BA Certification and/or Scrum Master Certifications.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, within an IT environment
- At least 5 years experience as a Scrum Master is essential
- Strong understanding of agile principles, values, and methodologies, with a proven track record of successfully implementing and coaching Scrum practices
- Business analysis experience is a definite advantage
- Familiarity with waterfall methodology and ability to adapt to different project requirements.

**Competencies and **behaviours**:

- Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and resolve conflicts, promote teamwork, and foster a positive team culture.
- Ability to drive change, persuade and influence both internal and external stakeholders
- Sound judgement, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- High resilience and agility with the ability to work well under pressure and deliver to aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- High emotional intelligence and experience in managing a number of deliverables

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