Scrum Master(Durban) at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Scrum Masters are servant leaders, facilitator and coach for an Agile Team. Scrum Masters help educate the team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed. Scrum Masters facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

Job Description

• The Scrum Master’s primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching, and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile values and principles through practices.
• Facilitate the team coordinating with other teams in the programme.
• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team.
• Facilitate stakeholders and team engagement to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
• Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery. Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
• Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management. Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or Management Information Systems
• Foundational Agile certifications required:
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) OR Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
• Relevant work experience: Must have 1-3 years as a scrum master

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (PREFERRED, NOT A REQUIREMENT)

• Knowledge of agile way of working and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain and motivate their team if needed.
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Ability to run and facilitate core events and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board

Role specific certifications advantageous:

• Industry standard certification, i.e. CSM or PSM

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Managing Tasks
• Developing expertise
• Following procedures
• Meeting time scales
• Making decisions
• Directing people
• Empowering individuals
• Interacting with people