Agile Scrum Master

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced Scrum Master in Cape Town to ensure agile projects are delivered on time and within budget. You will guide teams, remove blockers, and foster a high-performing, self-organizing culture across multiple teams.

Your role includes coaching teams in Agile practices, facilitating sprint ceremonies, supporting Product Owners, and promoting transparency through metrics. A strong Scrum Master certification and a track record across industries are essential.

Qualifications

• Certification as Scrum Master (CSM/PSM CSP) required.
• Grade 12 completed.
• At least 5 years as Scrum Master across multiple teams.
• Experience applying Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional guidance to the team(s) and enable self-organizing delivery.
• Coach teams to effectively apply Agile practices.
• Self-facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint demos.
• Align to client frameworks and facilitate scaled Agile ceremonies.
• Coach ceremonies (Daily stand-up, demos, retrospectives, planning).
• Participate in PI Planning, Scrum-of-Scrums, Large Scale events and support multiple teams.

Education

Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, CSP)

Job description

As a Scrum Master, you'll ensure that the Agile team's projects are delivered on time and within budget. You will manage the team's workflow by enforcing rules and guidelines while ensuring each project meets quality standards. You'll also work with other teams to ensure they're delivering as expected under your guidance.

Qualifications and experience:

• A relevant Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, CSP)
• Grade 12
• Experience being a Scrum Master for at least 5 years across multiple teams and industries/organizations.
• Proven experience in the application of one or more of the following:
• Agile values and principles
• Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Kanban principles, practices, and theory
• Scaled Agile Methodology

Duties and responsibilities:

• Provide functional guidance to the team(s), a development methodology that allows a team to self- organize and deliver change quickly.
• Coach the teams to: Ensure the effective use/application of Agile practices
• Self-Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos
• Align to the Client Recipe, Responsible for facilitating/coaching scaled Agile ceremonies
• Coaching of team Agile ceremonies (Daily stand-up; team demo; team retrospective; team planning; team sprint and iteration review)
• Participate in PI Planning, Participate in Scrum-of-Scrums, Participate in Large Scale Retrospective, Participate in Large Scale Delivery Demos, and Actively engage several teams to support large-scale planning
• Provide guidance to ensure the effective use/application of Agile practices and tools
• Responsible for coaching the configuration, integration, reporting (metrics), and adoption of relevant configuration tools (i.e. JIRA; Confluence) within teams
• Responsible for coaching teams to continuously review and gain performance, delivery, and governance-related insights from the teams' performance metrics
• Promote transparency from team to portfolio, Update the organization on the teams progress and escalat issues that cannot be resolved by the team
• Work with the team to become self-sufficient in their agile practices, mature enough to not need full- time support from a Scrum Master
• Assist and coach teams to ensure they understand the importance of delivering to agreed timelines (end of development iteration)
• Assist and coach the teams on the importance of removing organizational impediments impacting delivery Provide assistance to the programs and teams to ensure refinement of work from portfolio to team
• Coach the team on the importance of removing obstacles that are impeding progress
• Facilitate cross-team coordination throughout program increment
• Provide facilitation support to the Product Owner with regards to the process of program\team backlog refinement and prioritize the product backlog
• Provide support to the Team Leads with regards to the basic agile practices across multiple teams in a program. Provide support to the mature agile teams on an ad hoc basis
• Drive continuous improvement during the delivery process and in the teams Agile maturity. Responsible for continuous improvement of current processes. Responsible for the continuous assessment of the teams level of Agile maturity
• Coach and guide teams to increase their Agile maturity on a journey to become an autonomous team