Jobs at The Shoprite Group of Company

Job Objectives    

• Ability to play multiple roles either as a Scrum Master on Agile scrum teams or can be flexible to play the role of project management in a traditional project environment depending on the need
• Focus on delivering fully tested, independent, valuable small features across the mobile channels
• The ability to work within a team and provide mentorship and lead digital agencies
• The ability to manage multiple scrum projects working towards the business objectives.
• Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices
• Build-in instability – the ability to challenge the team in accomplishing the business objectives.
• Self organizing project teams – manage the core principals of SCRUM:

 Teams autonomy.

•  Self-transcendence in pushing to achieve the objectives and constantly improve their practices.
•  Cross-fertilization of the necessary disciplines across the teams.
• Overlapping development phases – help implementing the product definition, understand and provide feedback on the user experience and user interface.
• Organizational transfer of learning – foster adoption of successful processes by assigning experienced team members to new projects as existing projects are completed.

Apply Agile best practice within the work environment.

• Removes impediments
• Ensuring a team’s ability to deliver on its sprint promises remains unobstructed.
• Adhere to scrum process and communication to product owner.
• Removing any impediments that prevent a team from completing the work it has negotiated for a given sprint.

Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions

• To effectively communicate to all stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• To negotiate work for a given sprint.
• Expert in people management

Analysis and investigation

• To compile sprint backlogs and remove any impediments.
• To report back to the product owner on the status of the various projects.
• Perform analysis on completed projects and provide insight into enhancements into the process.

Qualifications    

• Matric plus applicable tertiary equivalent experience or preferably, an ICT relevant diploma or degree from a recognised tertiary institution.
• PMI – Agile Certified Practitioners (ACP)
• PMP certification
• Prince2 Certified (Foundation or Practitioner)
• Scrum Alliance – Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner

Experience    
Essential:

• 3-5 years working experience within the IT industry
• 3+ years experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC).
• 2 years experience in all aspects of
• Agile methodology and SCRUM implementation

Knowledge and Skills    
Essential:

• Presentations skills
• Creative and analytical skills
• Commercial and business understanding of the broader retail industry
• Dynamic personality and the ability to think outside the box
• Excellent communication skills – written and oral
• Excellent organisation and facilitation skills
• Excellent team-working, interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills – Strategic thinker, people management
• Management skills - organizational, time management, delivery and planning management
• Strong conflict management skills
• Experience with the implementation of SCRUM in an organization