5+ Years experience in an Agile Master role
- Degree in IT or relevant experience
- In depth knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- Certification as Scrum Master
- Project Management qualification
Role tasks
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and add value to project and customers.
- Align within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.
- Give structure to workshops and meetings to help lead and facilitate the team’s Agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization teams/Agile, i.e. “closing the loop” and “getting things done”.
- Assessing the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
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Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame with an emphasis on problem solving.
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Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency. A key part of this will be finding a way to show the current status/performance of the team.
- Supporting the Business Product Owner, especially with respect to the process of grooming the product backlog. Pointing data quality issues out, and facilitating them being fixed – arriving at more mature stories will be key.
- Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
- Assist with project- and team coordination tasks when needed.
Skills required:
- Previous exposure to a finance function(either being in a finance function or Agile Master for a team that services a Finance Function)
- Manage a technical team using the AGILE methodology
- Willingness to learn and grow with the team.
- Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
Please note the following:
– only South African ID holders will be considered
– all candidates that apply must meet the requirements in order to be shortlisted.
Desired Skills:
- Finance
- Workshops
- product owner
- Project Management Agile
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree