Scrum Master - (EE) Cape Town

SUMMARY:
Seeking a Senior Scrum Master with a Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field ( and Scrum Master certified, SAFe preferred) plus 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, for an EE position in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Job Role

Responsible for the overseeing and providing guidance to the scrum teams in BI, Analytics and Digital environment.

• Ensure that development teams follow Scrum framework values and Agile practices.
• Mentor and motivate the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
• Be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference.
• Responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from the team while promoting self-management and constantly improving standards of work.

 Responsibilities

• Establish and manage team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams.
• Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Own delivery roadmap.
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
• Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process).
• Using Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Train, mentor, and support scrum teams to follow Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determine and manage tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Manage each Project’s scope and timeline.
• Coordinate Sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Schedule and facilitate scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitor progress and performance and help teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and Product/System testing.
• Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and remove impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Help teams implement changes effectively.
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.

Requirements

 Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field.
• Certified Scrum Master, SAFe preferred.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
• Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation.
• Hands-on experience with Software Delivery Life Cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management.
• Experience in Project Management/Team Lead roles is mandatory.
• Experience in delivering BI products preferable.

Skills/ Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban etc. to deliver solutions is essential.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and Project Management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Knowledge of various toolsets such as:
  • SAP Hana Studio
  • SAP Data Services
  • Informatica Data Quality Suite
  • Cloudera big data storage
  • Microsoft Power BI 

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