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    Scrum Master - Cape Town, South Africa - TalentCru

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    TalentCru Cape Town, South Africa

    4 days ago

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    Description

    The role plays a crucial part to ensure the successful project delivery to realise the ASOC strategies, focussing on service onboarding and automation. The position requires a self-driven, proactive individual with repeated practice in using the Agile Methodology, without compromising on scope, time, and budget.

    NB* THIS IS A CONTRACT ROLE

    Role purpose:

    • Successful project delivery to realize the ASOC strategies, focusing on service onboarding and automation.
    • Be a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching Agile methods, providing support facilitation to increase velocity and productivity.
    • Identify risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team through technical delivery, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution.
    • Keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks.

    Technical / professional qualifications:

    Essential:

    • Bachelor's degree or National Diploma in the field of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
    • At least 5 years' experience delivering large, complex, OSS or IT transformational projects at a tactical and strategy level.
    • At least 3 years' experience as a Scrum Master managing Agile teams.
    • Proven practical experience in implementing SAFe Agile, Scrum and / or Kanban.

    Desirable:

    • Certified Scrum Master
    • PMBOK and / or Prince 2 certified
    • Working knowledge and competence using JIRA and Confluence

    Key Accountabilities

    • Coach team members on SAFe Agile methods and technical practices (e.g., CI/CD, TDD, etc.).
    • Through powerful questioning, prepare your team (s) to actively participate in PI Planning.
    • Facilitate key Agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc.
    • Engage external technical teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments.
    • Implement controls and provide management reports on Portfolio level i.e., Agile reporting and compliance.
    • Facilitate sessions to improve team's workflow and velocity.
    • Work with the Portfolio Management Office on program / project execution and operational excellence.

    Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

    • Strong understanding of / experience with software development lifecycles in complex, data driven initiatives is essential, especially within Agile framework i.e., SAFe and methodologies i.e., Scrum, Kanban, etc.
    • Solid, proven experience in using Agile ceremonies to plan, deliver, proactively manage dependencies and continuous improvement.
    • Able to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy.
    • Experience working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit.
    • Excellent skills in contextualizing technical projects in terms of the holistic view to gauge overall progress in form of a project report.
    • Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure.

    Key performance indicators:

    • Consistently meeting sprint goals to deliver business value
    • Team interaction and communication
    • Manage team velocity and cadence
    • Effective controls to manage project risks and impediments
    • Accurate, timeous project reporting
    • Customer satisfaction
    • Minimal defaults on governance processes, if any

    NB* THIS IS A CONTRACT ROLE

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