Summary

The IT Scrum master will participate and ensure adherence to daily scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meeting as well as scrum theories, practices and guidelines. S/he will manage project scope, timelines, delivery and promote agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate/participate in key Agile rituals across Scrum teams (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospectives).

• Communicate project status and risks to IT management.

• Manage projects in JIRA.

• Manage multiple projects at once.

• Be an articulate and proactive team member, and lead our teams to successful project delivery.

• Identify resistance and performance gaps and work to develop and implement corrective actions.

• Ensure timely completion of high quality and thoroughly documented deliverables.

• Drive lasting changes to the client’s ways of working by utilizing a consultative approach that focuses on defining and measuring customer value delivered at each milestone.

• Ability to manage overall delivery of IT strategic initiatives.

• Promote and reinforce agile practices.

• Optimize delivery within a project or program through insights and mitigation strategies for project risk management.

• Above all else, foster a collaborative team environment driven to build valuable solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a business /IT related discipline.

• Professional certifications such as Certified Scrum Master/Professional Scrum Master.

​ • 3 to 5 years of experience in Agile/Scrum. ​

• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organisation to achieve broader insights into managing workstreams and outcomes.

• Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to achieve required results.

• Proficient with collaboration tools including Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Office applications.

• Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow.

• Experience managing delivery by collaborating and negotiating with multi-disciplinary teams to shape a cohesive delivery approach and transformative value-driven initiatives.

• Experience working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum, waterfall, and hybrid systems.

• Experience facilitating Agile/Scrum ceremonies (i.e. stand-ups, backlog refinements, agile retrospectives, sprint reviews), decision making, and conflict resolution.

• A solid background of working with business analysts, subject matter experts, the delivery team, and other stakeholders to ensure common priorities, manage dependencies and remove impediments.

• Experience leading teams to implement digital technologies such as Mobile, RPA, DevOps, and Cloud Platforms.