Scrum Master at PPS

Job Advert Summary    

• Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team who help educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. Scrum Masters help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
• The Scrum Master primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
• Scrum Masters work with the extended Scrum Master community, including SAFe Program Consultant, Release Train Engineer, Product Owners and Architecture to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.

Minimum Requirements    
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Science or Information Technology
• Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance)

Experience:

• 1 - 3 years’ experience leading teams as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment in IT, Financial Services or Consulting (essential)
• Experience as part of an Agile software delivery team as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, Agile Project Manager (preferred)

Knowledge and Skills:

• Group facilitation approaches
• Good knowledge of servant leadership
• Scrum/Agile software development methodologies
• Software development
• Coding and designing
• Business Process and Analysis
• Product backlog understanding and management
• User stories knowledge

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Continuously engage in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity and help the team focus on creating increments of value each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
• Facilitate team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective ensures they are productive and kept within the timebox.
• Assist the team in preparation for key activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
• Support the team’s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams and frequently represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness (see Program Increment for more details).
• Assist the team with building effective relationships with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services.
• Support the team in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.
• Teach problem-solving techniques and assist the team with becoming better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance and coaches the team in self-management.
• Assist the team with resolving interpersonal conflicts and challenges and identify opportunities for growth.
• Escalates people problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; helps individuals.
• Foster a culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
• Support the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organisation’s SPCs.

Deadline:24th December,2025