Project Manager/ Scrum Master at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

• A leading payments company are looking for a dynamic PM/ Scrum Master to join their growing IT team. The right individual must be innovative, with a proactive approach to projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement, participate in and contribute to Agile development (scrum)
• Maintain communications between the development team and the rest of the business stakeholders.
• Take ownership of the development work pipeline to ensure predictable delivery.
• Scheduling of tasks and Assignment of tasks to team members.
• Simultaneous Management of Multiple Teams and Products.
• General management of schedule, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation, including cross-team, cross-project, and customer delivery dependencies.
• Provide executive status of projects and interact with executive staff for steering committees, status reports, removal of blockers, and risk identification / mitigation.

Desired experience and qualification

• Matric
• Bachelor of Science/ any related tertiary qualification
• Scrum Certified
• Have 2-5 years previous experience working within project management for software developers using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Understand the software development ecosystem; basic knowledge of core web technologies and be able to predict time expectancy of job completion.
• Be able to manage company and developer expectations through honest and timely updates.
• Solid understanding of a recognised ticketing/project management system