Delivery Lead: Scrum Master

2 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Entersekt Full time

**Why Entersekt**

Founded over 11 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in mobile authentication, mobile app security, and payments enablement technology, offering highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents.

Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Protecting the digital transactions of over 67 million active users on our platform, with over 60 registered patents that recognizes innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers their customers' frictionless authentication and digital payments experiences. Entersekt has invested in, and created, a diverse product portfolio that positions the company well to execute on its expansion in North America and European markets.

Do you find joy in guiding and coaching teams to achieve great results? Are you a servant leader at heart who is detail orientated and driven by being accountable for effectiveness?

Entersekt is looking for an experienced delivery lead with a proven track record of working with Agile software teams to optimise value. You pride yourself on being self-managed, and always searching for opportunities to experiment and learn while growing yourself and the teams you serve. Your passion for Lean, Agile values and principles within the scrum framework give you the unique ability to elevate awareness and encourage agreed ways of working throughout the organization.

**The Role**

You will work with teams of software and quality engineers who are responsible for designing, building, and releasing high-quality software products in the fintech industry. As a delivery lead, your main responsibility will be to coach the teams, product owners, and wider company in Agile and Scrum principles. You will also facilitate collaboration and remove impediments to delivery so that the teams can deliver value at every sprint. You will be involved in quarterly planning events and work with teams to achieve their product outcomes (of which you will have to do some tracking and reporting). Your role will require you to work closely with product owners and your teams, while your career will be managed by the Agile delivery manager.

**Responsibilities**
- Coordinate and collaborate across the organization to enable agility within time, resource, and budget constraints.
- Proactively engage teams and stakeholders to use best practice processes and tools to remove impediments and maintain transparency.
- Coach the software engineering teams in self-organization and the continuous improvement of delivery processes and team capabilities.
- Partner with the product owners to work effectively with their teams, including supporting the product owners groom and maintain the product backlog.
- Schedule and facilitate Scrum events or other Agile meetings.
- Find ways to make work visible and improve the flow and cycle time of product features.
- Use, produce, and communicate relevant metrics to enable inspection and adaption.
- Maintain your personal relevance in the industry.

**Skills and Experience**
- At least 1-2 years' experience in a Scrum master role for a software development team that diligently applied Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- A formal Scrum qualification or learning path.
- Experience working with software teams building commercial products or SaaS platforms.
- Strong organizational, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence in a Scrum and Agile context.
- Basic understanding of project management (beneficial).

**Personality Attributes**
- The ability to make decisions and resolve conflict while embodying servant leadership.
- A healthy self-esteem that does not mind being challenged by bright people.
- The ability to positively influence and motivate teams to realize value.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

We place a lot of value on how we treat prospective employees and appreciate the time and effort that goes into job hunting. That is why we aim to keep the hiring process as quick and seamless as possible while ensuring the best possible fit for both you and the company.

Working at Entersekt is truly a dream. You get exposed to cutting-edge technology, colleagues who are leaders in their fields, and an awesome working environment that includes flexible hours, remote work, and plenty of growth opportunities.



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