Scrum Master - Centurion, South Africa - Momentum Investments

Momentum Investments

Verified Company

Centurion, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter

Description

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

Role Purpose

Ensure well established highperforming team dynamics, a continuous flow, and an exponential improvement in processes

Requirements:

Formal Scrum Master training and 23 years' experience as Scrum Master.
Computer literate, including competency with Jira, O365, Teams, and SharePoint, Excel, MS Powerpoint.
Experienced working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
Solid understanding of Lean and Lean principles and the ability to propagate this into the teams and the organisation.
Experience in data environment and investment and financial industry will be an advantage.
Basic understanding of software engineering best practices and basic architecture concepts like service orientated architecture and objectorientated analysis and design will be an advantage.
Interest in future technologies and trends.
Experience in coordinating and facilitating events for teams working from home.

Duties & Responsibilities

Manage communication between agile teams and product owners of internal and external business units to develop solutions that supports business needs.
Help and coordinate the development and documenting of software requirements in collaboration with the product owners, Business Analysts, and team.
Coordinate business objective delivery within agreed timelines.
Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with all team members and sponsors while managing time.
Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership.
Facilitate the team's progress toward team goals.
Monitor and improve the team's quality, predictability, flow, and velocity performance.
Help the team focus on daily and sprint goals in the context of Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
Teach problemsolving techniques and help the team become better problemsolvers for themselves.
Facilitate all team meetings, including Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective.
Support the Product Owner in their efforts to create and manage the backlog in the team.
Eliminate impediments.
Help foster a culture of discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
Build a highperforming team focus on everimproving team dynamics and performance.
Help the team manage conflict.
Help coordinate interteam dependencies through coordination with other teams.
Help the team understand how to estimate Stories, Features, and Capabilities.
Facilitate team decisions and include correct stakeholders in team decisions.
Assist Team Manager with monthly reporting.
Monitor Support and BAU within teams.

Competencies

Excellent people management and leadership skills.
Innovative solution finding/problemsolving skills.
Assessing and managing conflict abilities.
Highly selfmotivated and resourceful.
Excellent crossfunctional communication skills, including both written and verbal.
Comfortable working within a fastpaced, dynamic environment.
Ability to multitask and prioritise in timecritical situations.
Technical background (Development/DevOps domain).