Scrum Master / Project Manager at Vodacom

Description

• The Scrum Master is a member of the squad who coaches the squad on Agile principles and practices as well as teaching, facilitating, coaching, mentoring and consulting on Agile techniques and ceremonies. The Scrum Master helps to maximise squad productivity? to a sustainable and predictable velocity. The Scrum Master will also help embed continuous learning with the aim to lead the squad members to self-sufficiency. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the scrum team. They help those outside the scrum team understand Agile ways of working and which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which are less, facilitating everyone to improve these interactions to maximize the value created by the scrum team. Typically reports to the Chapter Lead.

Job Responsibility

•  Support the Product Owners and other scrum masters in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations
•  Coach team members on Agile methods and technical practices (e.g., CI/CD, TDD, etc.)
•  Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team
•  Track and report on current status of all team members and the delivery
•  Facilitating key agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
•  Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
•  Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning
•  Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or  other related field
•  A total of at least five to eight years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be as a Scrum Master or Product Owner with agile teams
•  Experience in designing and delivering complex digital capabilities
•  Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
•  Certified Agile coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFeCertified Scrum Master or similar
•  Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
•  Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Prince 2, PMP preferred

Skills

• Influencing
• Agile
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Facilitation

Commitment from Vodacom

• Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.