Agile Master (1392)

SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are looking for an Agile Master for a 12 month contract position based in Midrand

• IT / Business Degree
• Professional membership to international Agile Body

• One or more of the following:

  • Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master® (scrumailliance.org)
  • Certified SAFe® ...
    
    

    POSITION INFO:
    The Role:

    We are looking for an Agile Master for a 12 month contract position based in Midrand

     

    • IT / Business Degree
    • Professional membership to international Agile Body

    • One or more of the following:

      • Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master® (scrumailliance.org)
      • Certified SAFe® Program Consultant (scaledagile.com)
      • Certified SAFe® Agilisit (scaledagile.com)
      • Scale Professional Scrum™ (scrum.org)
      • Certified SAFe Release Train engineer (scaledagile.com)
      • Certification as Scrum Master (Advantageous)
      • Project Management qualification (Advantageous)

     

    • German speaking advantageous
    • Willing and able to travel internationally
    Skills and Experience:
    • 8-10 years’ experience in more than one Agile Team
    • 5 years’ experience in the IT / Software DevOps industry is essential
    • Previous exposure to a finance function (either being in a finance function or Agile Master for a team that services a Finance Function)
    • Ability to manage a technical team using agile methodologies
    • Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
    • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g. numerous Burndown
    • techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
    • Excellent knowledge and experience in applying
    • Agile scaled models (e.g. SAFe, Nexus, LeSS)
    • Knowledge of ITPM, AWM (Advantageous)
    • Excellent proficiency in the Agile Tool Chain (JIRA, Confluence, X-Ray, BitBucket)
    • Data Network knowledge (advantageous)
    • Problem solving capabilities
    • Ability to work as part of a team
    • Ability to work independently as well as independently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality
    • Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users
    • Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation
    • Strong presentation skills
    • Above-board work ethics
    • Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project
    • Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required
    • Data Network knowledge advantageous

     

    Key Accountabilities:
    • Provides active and regular mentorship to other Agile Masters
    • Supports multiple Feature Teams in complex Products / Sub-products up to Domain level
    • Provides key insights into the evolution of Agile KPIs in complex Agile Teams to improve efficiencies at an organisational level
    • Contributes significant value in relevant CoPs through active leadership
    • Guides the team and organisation on the use and application of Agile/Scrum methodologies and Aligns within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding outcomes
    • Collaborates with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations
    • Gives structure to workshops and meetings to lead and facilitate the team’s Agile way of working practices
    • This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
    • Assesses the agile maturity of the team and organisation and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects
    • Assists with internal and external communication and improving transparency. Demonstrates the status / performance of the team as key element
    • Supports the Product Owner with grooming  processes and product backlog management
    • Assists with project- and team coordination tasks when required
    
    
    

     

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