Senior Scrum Master

• 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