Scrum Master

SUMMARY:
The Role:

A focus client is looking for a Scrum Master to join for a 12 month contract. 

12 Month Contract - Remote until further notice
Preferably Gauteng Based

Essential:

• Matric
• Certified scrum master/scrum practitioner
• Tertiary degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSC) advan...
  
  

  POSITION INFO:
  The Role:

  A focus client is looking for a Scrum Master to join for a 12 month contract. 

  
  12 Month Contract - Remote until further notice
  Preferably Gauteng Based

  Skills and Experience:

  Essential:

  • Matric
  • Certified scrum master/scrum practitioner
  • Tertiary degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSC) advantageous
  • At least 2-4 yearsâ?? experience working in a Scrum Master role 
  • At least 2 yearsâ?? experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations  
  • Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) advantageous

  Technical Skills:

  • Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban
  • Knowledge of the software development life cycle
  • Essential you are fully proficient at Jira administration, for example:
    • Understand the JIRA data model
    • Create and maintain workflows, transitions, post actions, etc.
    • Plugin evaluation
    • Project administration
    • Create and maintain Users and Security Groups
    • Proficient in writing JQL queries
    • Create and maintain fields and field configurations, screens and screen configurations
  • Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
  • Working with ServiceNow IT Business Management (ITBM) advantageous

  
  
  

  Key Accountabilities:

  Key Purpose

  • Is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team that does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level
  • Help form a self-managed team that is motivated, predictable, transparent and consistently delivers quality work and continually inspects and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the Agile values, principles and practices
  • Facilitates the removal of impediments teams face when developing solutions
  • Implements agile best practices within a team
  • Helps the development team, business and management develop a culture of collaboration - Act as a change agent to the team and organisation
  • Supports the team to be self-organising and function as an accountable, high performance team
  • Focused and goal driven and helps to achieve the Sprint goals
  • Be a master facilitator
  Personality and Attributes:
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Accurate
  • Ability to grasp concepts quickly
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • An ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
  • Proactive
  • Must be willing to work overtime when required (including weekends where necessary)
  • An openness to work with others and build on team input.
  • Must have pride in their work and a desire to deliver perfection at all times. Quality is non-negotiable
  • Able to establish a collaborative relationship with the systems area
  • The individual must have a strong desire for self-learning
  • Good work ethic
  Other:

  Behavioral Skills

  • Stress Management
  • Time management and prioritization
  • Learning orientation
  • Innovation
  • Bias for action
  • Teamwork and co-operation
  • Strong management skills
  
  
  

   

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