Scrum Master

This role will use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. You will thrive on cultivating an atmosphere for high-performing team dynamics, ongoing improvement and continuous flow by training, mentoring, and supporting teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices. Ensuring all scrum based activities are completed in a timely manner, including defining and organising Scrum roles, sprint planning, daily scrum/ standups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities

Strategic Focus

• Manage each project s scope and timeline.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.

Operational Management

• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
• Help teams implement changes effectively.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members own the product and enjoy working on it.

People Leadership

• Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).

Governance & Risk

• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.

Experience & Personal Attributes

Experience

• Certified Scrum Master.
• A minimum 2 years as a Scrum Master or similar role.
• Possess excellent knowledge of agile methodology, techniques and frameworks including scrum or Kanban to deliver solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables.
• Demonstrated people leadership.
• Invested in Agile frameworks.

Personal Attributes

• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Servant Leadership.
• Building relationships.
• Critical thinking.
• Strategic planning.
• Results orientation.
• Influencing others.