Job Description

Intermediate Scrum Master: Parktown: Permanent

As servant leader coach the Agile Team, who help, educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. Help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

Primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying, and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.

Work with the extended Scrum Master community, including SAFe Program Consultant, Release Train Engineer, Product Owners, and Architecture to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.

Project manages initiatives:

• Identify digital/digitalization initiatives using Project Management and Agile best practices and skills as required.
• Provide implementation and support to business owners based on agreed initiatives and engages with stakeholders to facilitate implementation.
• Prepare and maintain detailed project plans, Kanban Boards, status reports, risks, and issues logs.
• Ensure that agreed project deadlines are met through planning, problem-solving and prioritization. Manages the project delivery process to meet its goals, objectives, and stakeholder expectations.
• Report project accomplishments and deliverables to management monthly.

Facilitates events and the teamxe2x80x99s progress toward team goals:

• Program Increment (PI)
• Facilitate team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration.
• Assists the team in preparation for key activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.

Coordinates with other teams:

• Support the teamxe2x80x99s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams.
• Frequently represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness.
• Help the team build effective relationships with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services.

Problem Solving:

• Supports the team in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.
• Continuous improvement.
• Help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions, facilitates the team retrospective. Teach problem-solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance and coaches the team in self- management. Helps the team resolve interpersonal conflicts and challenges and identify opportunities for growth. Escalates people problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue, helps individuals.

Maintaining Quality:

• Foster the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.

Coaching:

• Support the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organizationxe2x80x99s SPCs.

Education:

• Bachelorxe2x80x99s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology, Project Management, or other relevant area
• Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance)

Experience:

• Essential:
• 4 - 5 yearsxe2x80x99 experience leading teams as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment in IT, Financial Services or Consulting.
• Management and delivery of projects and/or applying agile principles whilst working with a wide array of stakeholders.
• Preferred:
• Experience as part of an Agile software delivery team as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Agile Project Manager.

Knowledge and Skills (maximum of 10):

Group facilitation approaches l good knowledge of servant leadership Scrum/Agile software development methodologies Software development l Coding and designing l Business Process and Analysis l Product backlog understanding and management l User stories knowledge l Ability to work in a self-directed, fast-paced environment l Use of MS Office tools and Agile toolkits (JIRA and Miro)

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