Scrum Master at Silica

Job description

Educational Requirements (Educational / academic qualifications)

• B Com or relevant degree advantageous
• Scrum Master Certification advantageous

Key Performance Areas: (Specific Description of the job)

• Ensure the basics of Scrum is embedded in the teams
• Implement agile best practices within a team
• Help the team to develop a culture of collaboration
• Maintain a high level of morale within the team
• Support the team to be self-organised and function as an accountable, high performance team.
• Work directly with client stakeholders, exco members, senior management and development team members
• Schedule sprint boundary meetings and make sure the team attends the meetings
• Attend all Sprint boundary meetings to guide team through the process
• Facilitate the stand-up meetings
• Identifying and removing impediments for the team
• Work with teams to streamline agile process and assist them to improve continuously
• Coach product owners new to the role to assist them to develop into the role of a product owner
• Assist the product owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet agreed delivery time frames
• Ensure that all the team members understand their roles and fulfil them to the best of their ability
• Assist the team with managing agile via agile tooling (Jira)
• Configure Jira for development teams

Prior Work Experience / Background:

The following backgrounds will be advantageous: Software development, project management, business analysis and/or testing