Scrum Master

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team in Cape Town.

This is an initial 12-month hybrid contract - onsite 3 times a week.

The Scrum Master’s primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching, and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile values and principles through practices.

• Facilitate the team coordinating with other teams in the programme.
• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team.
• Facilitate stakeholders and team engagement to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
• Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery. Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
• Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management. Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or Management Information Systems
• Foundational Agile certifications required.
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) OR Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
• Relevant work experience: Must have 1-3 years as a scrum master
• Knowledge of agile way of working and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain and motivate their team if needed.
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Ability to run and facilitate core events and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.