My client is a leading cloud based Technology firm and they are looking for a Scrum Master. The ideal candidate would have experience working on Enterprise level projects.
Job Responsibilities:
- Leads and coaches agile teams
- 2+ years’ experience as a Scrum master.
- Creates a high performance self-managed dynamic team minimizing impediments to development progress
- Monitor ongoing commitments to ensure fulfilment
- Establish realistic expectations to support development of mutual trust
- Identify potential win-win opportunities for customer and own organization
- Support Product Owner in the backlog management
- Facilitate regular team meetings, including daily stand-up, Iteration planning, team demo, and retrospective iteration
- Drives team by applying the agile process to achieve an optimised work-flow through continuous improvement
- Supports team goals and coordinates activities with other teams
- Help teams improve and take responsibility for their actions to deploy agile values, principles and practices
- Support Product Owner in the backlog management
- Apply team-building techniques to improve performances#
- Promote continuous learning and professional development of team members
- Ensure continuous improvement of software quality
- Support team self-defined processes and rules
- Design tests of ; Prepare and conduct tests
- Report and document tests and results
- Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
- Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
- Apply appropriate software and / or hardware architectures
Experienced Required:
- Extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines
- In depth knowledge of Agile methodologies, Kanban, Scrum etc
- Knowledge of the industry project management best practices, (PMBOK, SAFe, etc.)
- Well-developed leadership and problem-solving skills, including the ability to help the team in handling failures and setbacks to the teams effective performance
- The ability to understand and to relate effectively to the business, technical and organizational context in which the team is operating
- Ability to facilitate team learning and continuous improvement in operating Scrum and in implementing and improving relevant practices
- An excellent grasp of Scrum Artifacts and Ceremonies.
Essential and Desirable Experience:
- Experience in Agile or Scrum highly desirable
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in English both written and verbal
Educational Requirements:
- Relevant IT/Technical degrees masters qualification –
- Knowledge of Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence.
- A relevant industry certification such as Certified Scrum Master.
