Scrum Master (Senior) (Parvana)
About the Client:
- Our international, listed blue-chip client offers a pleasant professional office working environment located in the Southern Suburbs. They promote a culture of continual learning and of sharing of knowledge with each other and their clients and encourage staff to lead a balanced lifestyle.
They strive to reward staff with fair market-related basic salaries, as well as performance-based commission.
Responsibilities:
- Taking responsibility for all aspects of the delivery of projects.
- Coordinating all project activities and Agile implementation.
- Interacting with customers regarding product releases
- Motivating and inspiring team members to maximize their potential.
- Encouraging self-organization within the team and empowering team members.
- Monitoring project progress and providing timely feedback.
- Guiding the team in implementing Agile methodology rules.
- Organising Scrum events as necessary.
- Removing impediments so the team can focus on the work at hand.
- Managing the requirement gathering from internal and external customers.
- Following the change management process.
- Preparing and planning projects and driving those plans through.
- Mitigating risks and addressing issues.
- Representing company stakeholders at customer meetings and presentations.
- Working with Product Owner to align teams with the product vision.
- Creating an environment of collaboration within the teams.
- Champion continuous improvement activities.
- Communicating organisational impediments to leadership.
- Coaching Product Owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog.
Qualifications:
- Scrum Master certification (CSM) required.
- Project management certification preferred.
Skills / Experience:
- Deep understanding of Agile framework (Scrum and Kanban).
- In-depth knowledge of Agile, Scrum and disciplined Agile delivery concepts and methods.
- Expertise in SDLC models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
- Expertise in JIRA (be able to administer projects, run sprints, produce charts and reports)
- Experience in the following:
- Refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection and other Scrum techniques.
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
- Working with Scrum teams as well as dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for eliciting change in team behavior.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership. Facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, increasing transparency.
- Knowledge / experience in the following:
- CI/CD pipelines / Java.
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