Senior Scrum Master

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

POSITION INFO:

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

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:

o Lead/facilitate agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning (including effort sizing), sprint retrospectives,

o Maintain scrum board (TFS / Jira experience is advantageous), Product backlog, Sprint backlog,

o Optimise team’s work focus: Clear obstacles for the team; Protect team from outside interference/ interruptions allowing them to focus on the work,

o Ensure SDLC governances and best practice are complied with,

o Grow the adoption of agile practices (champion & guardian).

• Planning:

o Liaise with Product Owner and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, resourcing.

o Create short to medium-term flight plans to provide delivery context for larger deliveries.

• Reporting:

o Analyse team’s sprint performance; report on delivery progress and cadence.

• Personal effectiveness:

o Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.

o Communicates clearly and timeously.

o Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.

o Problem solving aptitude o Collaborates effectively with others to meet deliveries.

o Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.

o Aligns to ways of working and team culture.

o 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: experience in Human Capital, Actuarial and/or Financial reporting.