Reference Number HOL240412-2
Job Title Scrum Master
Business Unit Hollard Insure
Department IT
Job Family IT
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Chapter Lead: Engineering
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
Hello an exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Insure, IT area. We are looking to recruit a Scrum Master.
Role Purpose
The Scrum Master will be dedicated to a single Scrum team focusing on Integration. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder engagement & Communication
- Serve as liaison between Business, technical and non-technical departments.
- Communicate with other teams e.g. developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues.
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Maintain process documentation.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
- Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Empower the team to self-organize.
- 5 - 8 years Project Management and 2 years Scrum Master experience preferably within Financial Services
- Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, procedures and SDLC
- Sound understanding of short-term insurance, Hollards platform and languages
- Strong leadership, conflict resolution, analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
- Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types collaboratively
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
- Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Bachelors Degree in Information systems, Ccomputer systems design , Computer science, or equivalent
- Certified Scrum Master
Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating and enabling a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of care, dignity and inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including, but not limited to disability, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language and social origin , gender diversity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity). These grounds enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.
We proudly promote the Hollard Way we work, which is a combination hybrid work environment at this time. We offer flexibility in our work as far as possible, dependent on the nature of the role. Even if you dont meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply!
