Scrum Master - Johannesburg, South Africa - Hollard Recruitment

Hollard Recruitment

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Job Advert Summary:

Hello an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Hollard Life Solutions, IT Division. We are looking to recruit a Scrum Master.

The Scrum Master will be required to work on multiple projects and teams concurrently and manage his/her time effectively.

They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.

A friendly outlook on life with a can-do attitude.

General

Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work;
Facilitating discussion, decisionmaking, and conflict resolution;
Ensure all deliverables are delivered on time, within budget, scope and quality (meeting Hollard's quality guidelines and standards).

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Serve as liaison between product owner, technical and nontechnical departments;
Communicate with other teams e.g. developers, product owners and technical support specialists on product issues;
Escalate unresolved impediments to IT Management/Project Office to gain traction;
Communicate Sprint Retrospective actions to management when needed.

Development

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily standup meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrumrelated meetings;
Plan and run the various sprint ceremonies for multiple teams;
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress;
Ability to find opportunities and makes recommendations for Process Improvements, maintain Jira/Dev Ops Boards;
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

People leadership

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices;
Identify and remove impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments, prevents distractions;
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution;
Empower the team to selforganize;
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization;
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problemsolving;
Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers;
Guiding the team on how to get the most out of selforganization.

Teamwork

Build and maintain meaningful relationships with stakeholders;
Coach and mentor peers/juniors;
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information;
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog;
Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example;
Guiding the team on selforganizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Required Experience

3 years Scrum Master experience preferably within Financial Services/Insurance Industry;
3 or more years within a mature PMO environment;
Must have working experience with crossfunctional teams spread across multiple products and locations;
Experience in the Life Insurance industry preferred.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, procedures and SDLC;
Strong leadership, conflict resolution, analytical and problem solving skills;
Selfmotivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated;
Teamplayer with the ability to work within a collaborative environment;
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types collaboratively;
Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential;
Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, timecritical problems;
Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines;
Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with a high attention to detail;
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution; continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency;
Good presentation skills.

Educational Requirements:

Matric;
Certified Scrum Master;
First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I);
Project Management qualification an advantage;
Bachelor's Degree in Information systems, Computer systems design, Computer science, or equivalent.