Scrum Master

Duties and responsibilities:

• Drive and co-ordinate agile practices within the team to ensure that the team delivers value iteratively
• Run daily meetings to track progress and keep team focused on delivery goals
• Plan and facilitate technical sessions and retrospectives.
• Implement lessons learned to drive progress
• Implement initiatives to ensure the team deliver against the roadmap and achieve KPIs.
• Track team, product and business metrics to ensure that KPIs are being achieved.
• Analyse trends to understand team cadence and velocity.
• Communicate with internal teams to understand dependencies and remove obstacles

Qualifications and experience:

• Must have a relevant BA Certification and/or Scrum Master Certifications.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, within an IT environment
• At least 5 years experience as a Scrum Master is essential
• Strong understanding of agile principles, values, and methodologies, with a proven track record of successfully implementing and coaching Scrum practices
• Business analysis experience is a definite advantage
• Familiarity with waterfall methodology and ability to adapt to different project requirements.

Competencies and behaviours:

• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to identify and resolve conflicts, promote teamwork, and foster a positive team culture.
• Ability to drive change, persuade and influence both internal and external stakeholders
• Sound judgement, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• High resilience and agility with the ability to work well under pressure and deliver to aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• High emotional intelligence and experience in managing a number of deliverables