BI Scrum Master - Bellville at Sanlam Group

The overall purpose of the role:

• The purpose of the Scrum master is to be the Project/Delivery manager for SC BI delivery teams.
• The Scrum Master will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and a drive to make a difference.
• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams.
• Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
• Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process).
• Utilizing Agile metrics as quantitative input in Retrospectives.

Qualification and Experience:

• Relevant qualification in Engineering or BSc IT preferable.
• Relevant IT/project management certifications is advantageous.
• Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation.
• Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management.
• Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
• Experience in delivering BI products preferable.

Knowledge and Skills:

• 3-5 years of Scrum Master experience.
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.