Scrum Master - Parktown, South Africa - Hollard Recruitment

Hollard Recruitment
Hollard Recruitment
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Parktown, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Job Advert Summary:

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.


Required Knowledge and Experience:


General

  • Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, 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 in order 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 problem solving.
  • 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 of out 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.

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 equivalent3 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
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