Scrum Master - Cape Town, South Africa - Expleo

Expleo

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter

Description

Overview:
track-record of ensuring teams are positioned to perform.

With a robust strategy focusing on People, Process and Technology, we believe that our culture and the quality of our people are our greatest strengths.

As such, we need to employ top talent to support our key business functions.

Expleo's IT division provides innovative, strategic and cost-effective ICT solutions and professional services to TFG and its subsidiaries.

Working for Expleo means; working with highly talented professional individuals, who are passionate about collaboration, creativity and working towards successful customer service.

Responsibilities:

Drive and coordinate agile practices within the team to ensure that the team delivers

value iteratively

Run daily meetings to track progress and keep team focused on delivery goals
Plan and facilitate technical sessions and retrospectives. Implement lessons learned to

drive progress

Implement initiatives to ensure product team deliver against the product roadmap and

achieve KPIs.

Track team, product and business metrics to ensure that KPIs are being achieved.
Analyse trends to understand team cadence and velocity.
Communicate with internal teams to understand dependencies and remove obstacles
Represent changes in Change Advisory Board meetings, logging changes and

communicating success

Plan and coordinate the deployment of the team solution releases. Coordinate with

various stakeholders to ensure that the team releases lands successfully in
- store. This
includes technical teams, change management teams, business stakeholders

Qualifications:

A Scrum Master certification (CSM, A-CSM or PSM) is preferred
3 years' experience working as a Scrum Master
3 years' experience in Agile development methodologies at scale, Scrum, Lean and/or

Kanban

Project Management experience
Indepth understanding of all the Agile roles & principles
Indepth understanding of all the Agile roles & principles

Scrum principles, practices and theory
Agile techniques (i.e. User Stories; TDD; Continuous Integration; Continuous
Testing; Paring; Automated Testing, Agile games)
Configuration tools (i.e. White boards, JIRA; TFS etc.)

Documented patterns and techniques related to the Scrum approach (i.e.

Burndown/burnup techniques, Retrospective formats, etc.)

Group facilitation approaches (i.e. conflict resolution, effective teamwork, etc.)

Skills:

Excellent written communication, presentation and negotiation skills
Coaching and mentoring skills
A focus on delivering results and meeting customer expectations
Sound judgement, decisionmaking, and problemsolving skills
High resilience and agility with the ability to work well under pressure and deliver to

aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Competent in engaging with complexity and managing multiple stakeholders
Ability to drive change, persuade and influence both internal and external stakeholders