Senior Scrum Master at Old Mutual

Job Description

• Senior Scrum Masters are servant leaders, facilitator and coach for an Agile Team. Senior Scrum Masters leads a team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed. Senior Scrum Masters leads and facilitates the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
• Senior Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is managing the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices. Senior Scrum Master manages the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme. Manages the daily activities of the project, mentors the team and track and monitor the progress of the project.
• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team. Bringing stakeholders and team closer to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as; daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
• Acts as a safeguard for the team.
• Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
• Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

Skills

• Agile Methodology, Azure Devops, Coaching, Communication, Facilitation, Negotiation, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT)

Closing Date:15 June 2024