Scrum Master at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• The Scrum Master is co-located with a squad and together with the Product Owner, facilitates the processes which ensure value delivery.
• A Scrum Master is a servant leader and coach for squads. You will help educate squad members in the required tools and frameworks, ensuring that the agreed agile process is being followed.
• You will also remove impediments and foster an environment of high-performance, continuous flow and relentless improvement. 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Guides the Product Owners (POs) in discovery by practicing relevant agile techniques (e.g. journey maps) and facilitates in carving out MBI/MVP for larger epics.
• Supports PI Planning by facilitating timeous team breakouts and helps them identify their respective backlogs and dependencies.
• Guides the PO in elaboration to capture the key requirement details within Sanlam’s ecosystem.
• Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct the backlog refinement cadence to slice the feature to user stories at least once within an iteration.
• Creates and manages iterations within Sanlam’s ecosystem in alignment with the iteration schedule published by release management.
• Ensures daily stand ups are practiced so that the team has: Alignment on the value to be delivered on a given day
• A quick view on what value was delivered the day before
• Facilitates and ensures that the team conduct iteration planning cadences to plan for iterations.
• The opportunity to highlight any impediments that need to be removed to meet the iteration goal
• Manages and ensures that the iteration board are kept updated to reflect the current status.
• Encourages the team to achieve a healthy burn down of user stories or features within an iteration.
• Represents the respective squads in squad sync and ensures that the teams are aligned, aware and adjusts for any technical dependencies.
• Works closely with End to End team, Ways Of Working Support Services team and other support structures to ensure smooth functioning of the squads.
• Facilitates in show and tell (iteration demos and integrated system demos) and ensures the squads are able to effectively present their deliverables.
• Facilitate and ensure that the squads conduct retrospectives every iteration ensuring inspect and adapt principles.

Qualification

• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous 
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous

Experience:

• 2+ years of Scrum Master experience in a fully Agile and DevOps environment 
• Utilisation of dashboards, KPI/metrics and burn down charts