Scrum Master - Agile Project Manager

We are recruiting a Scrum Master - Agile Project Manager required for a hybrid model to join our Gauteng team.

Someone creative that likes to experiment, knows their Agile/Scrum stuff and when to â??bend the rulesâ? or â??adapt the implementationâ?.

 

Qualification Required:

• Grade 12

Qualifications Preferred:

• Tertiary Degree in Commerce, IT or Engineering.
• A Certified Scrum Master (PSM or CSM).

Experience required:

• More than 2 years as a REAL Scrum Master in Agile Environment.
• Mandatory skills required:  Agile Methodology, Scrum, Telco experience, SAFe and SDLC.
  • Must have solid experience and understanding of the Scrum principles.
  • Proven experience within a Product driven environment.
  • Telco domain/industry experience is non-negotiable (does not have to be current).
  • Must come from a Business Analyst background willing to still take responsibilities for some BA aspects.
  • Solid experience coming from a Custom Development background.
  • Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
  • Ability to coach multiple teams to reach their highest potential and deadlines.
  • Proven ability to work independently without supervision whilst driving decision in a collaborative fashion.
  • High attention to detail and sense of ownership and responsibility.
  • Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies and best practice, including experience as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in a number of software development teams and industries.
  • Ability to recognize areas for improvement and implement or work worth others to make the necessary process changes.
  • Excellent communication and inter-personal skills - able to interact with a wide range of individuals from Developers, Testers and Product Owners to senior management and executives.
  • Knowledge of and exposure to other software development methodologies and project management frameworks and concepts.
  • Are aware and can guide a team into/through these but not be able to code them.
• Desirable:
  • Knowledge and experience in the use of enterprise Agile frameworks, e.g. SAFe, LeSS, DaD or SoS.
  • Being an active Agile community participant.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the development teams, product owners and delivery team managers to pinpoint existing process flaws and identify a prioritized agile improvement roadmap to support consistent predictable delivery.
• High velocity communicator â?? making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays and other issues are communicated to key stakeholders.
• Runs daily, weekly, and monthly agile ceremonies efficiently and strictly.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, ensuring agile processes are followed, provide feedback to delivery teams and focus the teams on agreed sprint goals.
• Drives improvements that are generated by agile retrospectives.
• Research and educate the teams regarding utilization of appropriate features of our agile management tools.
• Provide update reports on Agile process for the wider organization.
• Facilitate the communication across different delivery teams to resolve dependencies and impediments.
• Work with the Product Owner to protect the current sprint commitments and continually refine and prioritize the backlog.
• Enforces the definition of ready for work coming into the development team.
• Enforces and educates external parties about the process for submission of development work requests.
• Continuously learning and educating the development team and fellow Scrum Masters on Agile methodologies and practices.
• Coach and mentor, the delivery teams to increase agile maturity across the company.
• Actively contributes to the Scrum Master Community of Practice.
• Taking responsibility for some Business Analysis aspects.

1. Agile Process Driver / Agile Coach (60%)
2. Project Management / Customer Relationship Management (20%)
3. Product Definition (20%)

Personality and Attributes:

• Energetic and resilient.
• Great communicator.
• People person with a strong personality yet humble.
• Proven ability to deal with difficult situations/people.
• Creative person that likes to experiment.

Work Environment:

• Hybrid Working Model (not a structure but can be up to 1 or 2 days per week).