Senior Scrum Master

Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

The Scrum Master is a servant leader, facilitator and coach for an Agile Team. The Senior Scrum Master leads a team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed. This involves leading and facilitating the removal of impediments and fostering an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

The Senior Scrum Masters primary responsibility is ensuring the self-organizing, self-managing team achieves its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices. The Senior Scrum Master manages the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the daily activities of the project, mentor the team and track and monitor the progress of the project.
• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team.
• Bring stakeholders and team closer to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as; daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
• Act as a safeguard for the team.
• Align across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Lead team effort in relentless improvement.
• Build a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

Minimum Requirements:

• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain other methodologies to motivate their team if needed.
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Empower the team through coaching.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.

Skills

Education

Closing Date

30 January 2024

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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