Scrum Master

Strategic Partners Australia; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Government in Adelaide is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile teams and drive effective delivery of citizen services.

Based in Adelaide, the role focuses on facilitating ceremonies, coaching teams, removing blockers and ensuring alignment with Agile principles in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master or equivalent Agile certification preferred.
• Security clearance: Australian citizen with Baseline Clearance preferred.
• Strong coaching and mentoring ability to build high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build the team's knowledge of Agile values, principles, techniques, processes and tools.
• Plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Assist the Product Owner with backlog refinement to ensure alignment with Agile principles.
• Identify and remove blockers to help the team achieve goals and protect delivery timelines.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and other teams to manage dependencies and delivery.
• Support team onboarding and foster a culture of trust, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile Coaching

Facilitation

Job description

One of our Federal government is seeking to engage Scrum Master

Location of work: Adelaide

Length of contract: 12 months

Security clearance: Australian citizen with Baseline Clearance preferred.

You will work closely with Software Architects, Project Managers, Product Owners, Analysts, Testers and Developers, sharing the purpose of building simple, helpful, respectful and transparent services for everyday Australians.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Build the team's knowledge of Agile values, principles, techniques, processes and tools.
• Collaborate with the team to develop a mutually agreed social contract outlining team behaviours, practices and Agile process rules.
• Plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Assist the Product Owner with reviewing and refining the product backlog, including reprioritising and reassessing the relevance of tasks and stories to ensure alignment with Agile principles.
• Anticipate, address and remove blockers and impediments that may impact the team's ability to achieve its goals.
• Negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders to protect the team from external influences that may affect delivery of agreed goals.
• Coordinate with other teams as required to manage dependencies and support delivery.
• Oversee new starters and ensure a smooth transition into the team, including introducing them to the team's social contract.
• Help the team manage conflicts and challenges and play a key role in improving team cohesion, motivation, dynamics and performance.
• Create an environment of trust and respect where issues and concerns can be raised safely.
• Ensure adherence to agreed Agile process rules and help the team remain effective by addressing conflicts and challenges.
• Conduct Agile rituals and events and actively participate in communication and change activities involving stakeholders.
• Research Agile trends, industry dynamics, frameworks and tooling to guide and improve the team's use of Agile methodologies.
• Build team capability through coaching and mentoring.
• Facilitate teams and enable them to become self-managing and self-organising.
• Develop and implement changes in workplace practices and business improvement strategies and assist teams through the transition to change.

Technical Skills

• Extensive experience as a Scrum Master.

Measurement — SFIA Level 4

• Identifies and prioritises appropriate measures, scales and targets.
• Supports projects, functions or teams in the development of measurement methods.
• Specifies base and derived measures that support agreed information needs.
• Specifies how data should be collected and stored for each required measure.
• Designs reports and reporting formats.

Methods and Tools — SFIA Level 4

• Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
• Reviews and improves the usage and application of methods and tools.

Organisational Facilitation — SFIA Level 5

• Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
• Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to enable collaborative problem solving and improve team performance.
• Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team.
• Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes and ceremonies.
• Recognises and works with the strengths and constraints of team dynamics.

Employee Experience — SFIA Level 4

• Supports assigned co-workers in areas of uncertainty, including organisational contacts, communication channels, processes, job expectations and manager relations.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialist knowledge to organisational planning and operations.
• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable areas of specialism.
• Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice provided is appropriate to organisational needs.