Scrum Master at Vodafone Global Enterprise

This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution

• This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks
• Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership
• Your responsibilities will include the following:
• Support the Product Owner 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 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
• Key Performance Indicators
• Number of new/updated features released per quarter
• % of users of new features by channel
• Release frequency and yield
• Productivity improvement/velocity

You Will Need The Following

• Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
• Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same.
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community
• Natural "servant" leader, with strong ability to coach and develop others, an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance
• Viewed by the wider organization as an effective and consistent collaborator, influencer, and negotiator, able to highlight internal and external dependencies and break down complex blockers
• Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
• Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure
• Good understanding of traditional project management practices
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
• Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP. LSD, and FDD
• Agile ceremonies, tools. and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators
• User story definition and team backlog management

Must Have Technical / Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or another related field
• A total of at least three to five 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
• SAFe Certified Scrum Master, Certified Agile coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or similar
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, Or Equivalent Experience Preferred

Advantageous technical / professional experience and training:

• A total of at least one to two years working experience in business analysis.
• Working experience using three or more development languages or tools such as UiPath, LUIS Azure Chatbot, C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic, Java, SQL.
• PowerBI training.
• UiPath business Analysis or Developer training or qualification.

Closing date for Applications: 26 October 2022.