SUMMARY:
Full -time scrum master with multiple teams
POSITION INFO:
Datonomy Solutions is founded on a business model called Connected Value Creation – this enables us to add value to all key stakeholders and unlock true growth, collaboratively. We believe in doing well by doing good, and the work we do creates value for employees, customers, society and the environment.
Building a career with Datonomy allows you to work on projects that interest you, and with the tech stack that appeals to you most. Diverse teams comprising a variety of cultures, ages and backgrounds are proven to be more effective - this also ensures that teams don''t become rigid and change-averse.
Datonomy invites you to embrace the future of work. Consulting gives you the flexibility to co-create your career with clients who rely on your unique skillset. The beauty of the model is that you can choose the length of your engagement with each client - you may want to spend a year or two rolling out a major programme, or just a few months designing a product feature.
At Datonomy, we want to collaborate with you to achieve your goals, personally and professionally, and that is why we want like-minded people to join our growing team.
We have set out to change 1 billion lives by 2030, become part of this incredible goal!
Scrum Master
Full –time scrum master with multiple teams
Part-time scrum master, performing another role within the team, simultaneously.
The role requires an individual with good communication skills and high organizational and ownership capacity. The ability to drive delivery through the facilitation of the team’s enablement is the aim.
A servant leader, championing the agile principles, values and practices, as agreed to within the team, and where identified as being useful is required.
Accountable for the team’s infrastructure (resourcing, planning, monitoring, reporting) as well as health (team dynamics, motivation, transparency), the role, if successful will move the team towards being self-organized, while delivering high quality, valuable work.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Team Delivery:
- Lead/facilitate agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning (including effort sizing), sprint retrospectives,
- Maintain scrum board (TFS experience is advantageous), Product backlog,
- Sprint backlog
- Optimise team’s work focus: Clear obstacles for the team; Protect team from outside interference/ interruptions allowing them to focus on the work
- Ensure SDLC governances and best practice are complied with
- Grow the adoption of agile practices (champion & guardian)
- Planning
- Liaise with Product Owner and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, resourcing.
- Create short to medium-term flight plans to provide delivery context for larger deliveries
- Reporting
- Analyse team’s sprint performance; report on delivery progress and cadence
- Personal effectiveness
- Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality
- Communicates clearly and timeously
- Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
- Problem solving aptitude
- Collaborates effectively with others to meet deliveries
- Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
- Aligns to ways of working and team culture
- Knowledge and/or experience of working within either Agile and/or other project methodologies
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Project Management or related fields
- Scrum Master certification
- Relevant Scrum Master experience in Financial Services IT
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, TeamFoundationServer
- Background in Accounting and Tax preferable
- Advantageous: BI BA or Development and or financial reporting experience
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