Senior Scrum Master at CSG International

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with the development teams, product owners and delivery team managers to pinpoint existing process flaws and identify a prioritized agile improvement roadmap to support consistent predictable delivery.
• High velocity communicator - making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays & other issues are communicated to key stakeholders.
• Runs daily, weekly and monthly agile ceremonies efficiently and strictly.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, ensuring agile processes are followed, provide feedback to delivery teams and focus the teams on agreed sprint goals.
• Drives improvements that are generated by agile retrospectives
• Research and educate the teams regarding utilization of appropriate features of our agile management tools
• Provide update reports on Agile process for the wider organization
• Facilitate the communication across different delivery teams to resolve dependencies and impediments.
• Work with the Product Owner to protect the current sprint commitments and continually refine and prioritize the backlog
• Enforces the definition of ready for work coming into the development team
• Enforces and educates external parties about the process for submission of development work requests.
• Continuously learning and educating the development team and fellow Scrum Masters on Agile methodologies and practices
• Coach and mentor the delivery teams to increase agile maturity across the company
• Actively contributes to the Scrum Master Community of Practice
• What we're looking for

Experience/ Qualifications

• A Certified Scrum Master
• Tertiary Degree in Commerce, IT or Engineering
• 3-5 years as Scrum Master
• 5 years in Agile Development Environment
• Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies and best practice, including experience as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in a number of software development teams and industries.
• Ability to recognize areas for improvement and implement or work worth others to make the necessary process changes.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills - able to interact with a wide range of individuals from Developers, Testers and Product Owners to senior management and executives.
• Knowledge of and exposure to other software development methodologies and project management frameworks and concepts.

Desirable:

• Experience running Scrum with JIRA
• Knowledge and experience in the use of enterprise Agile frameworks, e.g. SAFe.
• Being an active Agile community participant.