Scrum Master at Pattern Matched Technologies

The Role

Pattern Matched Technologies (Pty) Ltd as an award-winning WASP (Wireless Application Service Provider), telecommunications and Fintech development house, is seeking to employ a Scrum Master that will be enabling teams to self-organise, self-manage and deliver via Agile practices.

We're looking for people who love innovation, creating and challenging the status quo as much as we do. We’re all about creative, self-starting leaders who are excited by the thought of changing an entire industry for the better.

Primary Duties:

• Guide the team and client organization to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver business value
• Assess the Scrum maturity of stakeholders and coach them to achieve higher levels of maturity in Agile and Scrum principles
• Monitor and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Establishment of a cross-functional team
• Build a high-performing team and driving on improving team dynamics and performance through continual service improvements
• Empower and motivate the team in achieving a shared identity, values, and purpose in the delivery
• Conduct Scrum Team initiation workshops and associated training
• Skill the team to learn how to problem-solve for themselves
• Drive the software development lifecycle using a DevOps approach
• Supports the Product Owner in their efforts to creating and managing the backlog
• Assist the Product Owner to identify and prioritize system functionality in the Product Backlog
• Facilitates meetings including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective
• Help the team focus on daily and sprint goals in the context of Program Increment (PI)

Objectives:

• Helps the team understand how to estimate Stories, Features and Capabilities
• Helps coordinate inter-team dependencies through coordination with other teams
• Help the teams manage team conflict
• Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress, whether internal or external to the team

Personal Traits & Competencies:

• Must be a servant leader and have an attitude of self-empowerment
• Highly self-motivated and resourceful
• Ability to work under broad direction and from self-initiation Optimism, energy, and resilience in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity
• An outcome-focused mindset coupled with a strong appreciation and commitment to
• Agile ways of working
• Leading and demonstrating to the team, the value of adopting Agile values and principles (tends to lead the group without realising)
• Excellent people management and leadership skills with a passion for leading people
• Strong but likeable presence and can command presence
• Diplomatic, knowing when to back down and try a different path.
• Ability to influence and persuade
• Great listener
• A hands-on and innovative approach to solving problems and solution finding
• Investigative and analytical mindset
• Assessing and managing conflict abilities
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including both written and verbal
• Ability to multi-task in time-critical situations
• Continual self-improvement - growing your craft; blogs; scrum user groups / forums / gatherings; on-going professional development.
• Awareness of and maturity of Emotional intelligence (EI), Emotional Leadership (EL),
• Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ) that can be applied when working with teams

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in working in a Scrum Master role or equivalent
• Solid Agile implementation experience (Scrum and/or Kanban).
• Experience working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban
• Experience of developing software using a DevOps approach would be an advantage
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills
• Planning Experience
• JIRA advanced roadmap/portfolio and JIRA Sprint planning
• Scrum Certification would be an advantage

Remote Work

• Remote work policies have been in place since our inception. PMT offers flexible working locations as well as a strong foundation & structure that supports remote work.