Senior Scrum Master

 

Recruiter:

Dalitso

Job Ref:

1073702893

Date posted:

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa


JOB SUMMARY:
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JOB DESCRIPTION:

  • Adopt, promote, and coach Lean-Agile principles, core values and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist in maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long
  • term maintainability and robustness.
  • Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
  • Protect teams from distractions and unrelated \ unnecessary work.
  • Track and report on the implementation of features and capabilities.
  • Escalate, track, and eliminate impediments.
  • Manage risks and dependencies.
  • Help to improve the flow (velocity) of value through value streams by promoting continuous delivery and DevOps.
  • Help to motivate team members with a focus on continuous improvement.
  • Collate and publish quantitative measures of progress.
  • Coordinate inter-team cooperation.
  • Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life-cycle may be encountered).
  • Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations, and science activities.
  • Enable teams to self-organise, self-manage, and deliver.
  • Support and reinforce Scrum team rules.
  • Foster an environment of collaboration, learning and innovation.
  • Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, helping the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and
  • opportunities for growth.
  • Facilitate and lead meetings, including planning, progress, review, retrospectives and problem-solving workshops.
  • Establish and communicate the calendars for iterations.
  • Assist in determining milestones and roadmaps, and the plans that enable them.
  • Assist in determining sprint objectives and acceptance criteria.

Key Requirements:

  • ND (Comp Sci) with 11+ years, or
  • B.Tech/ B.Sc (Comp Sci) with 10+ years, or
  • B.Eng / B.Sc. Hons (Comp Sci) with 9+ years, or
  • M. Eng / M.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 7+ years, or
  • PhD / D.Eng. with 5+ years
  • Scrum Master Certified

Experience:

  • Experience in software engineering and acting as a Scrum
  • Master in an Agile environment for at least 3 of these years
  • Refer above for years relevant experience
  • Awareness and experience with Agile techniques:
  • User Stories
  • Test Driven Development
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Pair Programming
  • Automated Testing Techniques
  • Knowledge:
    • Servant leadership
    • Facilitation
    • Situational awareness
    • Continual improvement
    • Empowerment
    • Increasing transparency

 


 

 

 

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