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Since our establishment in 1918, Sanlam has been a prominent part of the South African business landscape. We have always held a long-term view of how business adapts to the demands of the environment in which it operates. Today, in a dynamic world, we see an evolving set of social, economic, political and environmental imperatives that require our skilfu...
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What will you do?
You will be responsible for the overseeing and providing guidance to the scrum teams in BI, Analytics and Digital environment. The additional responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices
Mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
The Scrum Master will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Main responsibilities:
Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams
Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process)
Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Manage each project’s scope and timeline
Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
Coach team members in Agile frameworks
Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
Help teams implement changes effectively
Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
What will make you successful in this role?
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
Certified Scrum Master
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban etc. to deliver solutions would be essential
Leadership and management experience. Excellent people and project management skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
Knowledge of various toolsets such as SAP Hana Studio, SAP Data Services, Informatica Data Quality Suite, Cloudera big data storage and Microsoft Power BI will be advantageous.
Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation
Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management
Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
Experience in delivering BI products preferable
Qualification and Experience
Knowledge and Skills
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Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
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Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensure a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
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