Scrum Master wanted urgently: APPLY HERE
Scrum Master wanted urgently: APPLY HERE
Vacancy Details
Employer: CapCircle Management Consultants
Role purpose: • The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company. • The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the technical delivery teams across the Financial se…
Role purpose:
• The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company.
• The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the technical delivery teams across the financial services division.
• This role is responsible for coaching agile methods and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity across the technical delivery teams in the division.
• This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution.
• This role is responsible for 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
Please note that this is a contract position for 6 months only and situated in Bellville, Cape Town.
Candidate Requirements:
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience :
• Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community
• Natural “servant” leader, with strong ability to coach and develop others, an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance
• able to highlight internal and external dependencies and break down complex blockers
• Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
• Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure
• Strong grounding in traditional project management practices
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
• Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP. LSD, and FDD
• Agile ceremonies, tools. and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators
• User story definition and team backlog management
• Backlog item estimation
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• DevOps culture, processes. and tools
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields
• A total of at least 3 to 5 years relevant experience of which at least two years need to be as a Scrum Master or Product Owner with agile teams
• ▪ Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFeCertified Scrum Master or similar
• ▪Experiences working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• ▪Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Prince 2, PMP preferred
• ▪JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred
Apply before Monday, June 1, 2020 – 58 Days left
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