Scrum Master

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


What will make you successful in this role?

  • Guides the Product Owners (POs) in discovery by practicing relevant agile techniques (e.g. journey maps) and facilitates in carving out MBI/MVP for larger epics.
  • Supports PI Planning by facilitating timeous team breakouts and helps them identify their respective backlogs and dependencies.
  • Guides the PO in elaboration to capture the key requirement details within the company ecosystem.
  • Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct the backlog refinement cadence to slice the feature to user stories at least once within an iteration.
  • Creates and manages iterations within the company ecosystem in alignment with the iteration schedule published by release management.
  • Ensures daily stand ups are practiced so that the team has: Alignment on the value to be delivered on a given day
  • A quick view on what value was delivered the day before
  • Facilitates and ensures that the team conduct iteration planning cadences to plan for iterations.
  • The opportunity to highlight any impediments that need to be removed to meet the iteration goal
  • Manages and ensures that the iteration board are kept updated to reflect the current status.
  • Encourages the team to achieve a healthy burn down of user stories or features within an iteration.
  • Represents the respective squads in squad sync and ensures that the teams are aligned, aware and adjusts for any technical dependencies.
  • Works closely with End-to-End team, Ways Of Working Support Services team and other support structures to ensure smooth functioning of the squads.
  • Facilitates in show and tell (iteration demos and integrated system demos) and ensures the squads are able to effectively present their deliverables.
  • Facilitate and ensure that the squads conduct retrospectives every iteration ensuring inspect and adapt principles.
Qualification:
  • Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous
  • Scrum Master certification will be advantageous
Experience:
  • Minimum of 2 years working experience in a fully Agile and DevOps environment
  • Utilisation of dashboards, KPI/metrics and burn down charts
Knowledge:
  • Engineering practices
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Behavior Driven Development methodology
  • CI/CD pipeline and the master run executions
  • The release process
  • Scrum principles
  • Product development process knowledge
  • Agile methodology
  • Sprint methodology and project management
  • Reporting and Administration
Personal Attributes:
  • Action orientated - Contributing through others
  • Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
  • Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
  • Decision quality - Contributing through others
  • Balances stakeholders - Contributing independently
  • Builds effective teams - Contributing independently
  • Collaborates - Contributing independently
Core Competencies:
  • Being resilient - Contributing through others
  • Collaborates - Contributing through others
  • Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
  • Customer focus - Contributing through others
  • Drives results - Contributing through others

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  • Job Id
    JD1336453
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
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