Scrum Master

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile transformation in a banking environment. You will coordinate delivery, align multiple project teams, and act as a trusted partner to stakeholders across the Bank.

The role requires strong leadership, communication, and proven ability to drive value using Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, and Lean thinking. You will coach teams to adopt an agile mindset and deliver complex banking solutions.

Qualifications

• 5 years investment banking experience (preferred).
• 5 years plus experience as a Scrum Master in delivery of business solutions/applications.
• Solid knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Highlighting the activities of the individual team members as well as the different project teams within Bank.
• Sequence work and drive delivery.
• Internal Consulting on Agile.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce waste in the way of work within the team.
• Coaching individual team members to help embrace an agile way of work.
• Vendor and procurement Management.
• Translating theories behind identified methodologies to give them relevance within the Banking division team.
• Agile Transformation.
• Influencing internal and external stakeholders to embrace an agile way of work.
• Using coaching and training to help others understand how to use an agile way of working to become more productive.
• Change Champion for transformation initiatives in the deployed area.
• Support activation and sustainability of change management mechanisms in departments/business units.
• Project Management.
• Providing reporting to internal and external stakeholders on activities, project status, risks and obstacles.
• Budget Management.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Build rapport with leaders in the Bank.
• Build rapport/be an interface for the deployed team with end users in the Bank.
• Recognized as SME agile Transformation as it relates business strategy in the Bank.
• Gain buy-in with different stakeholders for the successful implementation of transformative initiatives and strategic programmes.
• Facilitate alignment and collaboration across teams that deliver on strategic and operational initiatives.

Skills

Agile Transformation

Scrum Master

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Coaching

Change Management

Tools

SAFe

Scrum

Kanban

LeSS

XP

Lean Thinking

Job description

Build a trusted partnership with our clients at the beginning and throughout the relationship with the bank through a fast, transparent, and frictionless experience

Duties and responsibilities:

• Highlighting the activities of the individual team members as well as the different project teams within Bank
• Sequence work and drive delivery
• Internal Consulting on Agile
• Identifying opportunities to reduce waste in the way of work within the team
• Coaching individual team members to help embrace an agile way of work
• Vendor and procurement Management
• Having a deep understanding of theories behind methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean thinking, LESS, etc.
• Translating theories behind identified methodologies to give them relevance within the Banking division team
• Agile Transformation
• Influencing internal and external stakeholders to embrace an agile way of work
• Using coaching and training to help others understand how to use an agile way of working to become more productive
• Change Champion
• Change champion for all transformation initiatives in the deployed area
• Support the activation and sustainability of change management mechanisms in departments/business units
• Project Management
• Providing reporting to internal and external stakeholder of the activities, project status, risks and obstacles that are experienced
• Budget Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Build rapport with leaders in the Bank
• Build rapport/ be an interface for the deployed team with relevant end users in the Bank
• Recognized as SME agile Transformation as it relates business strategy in the Bank
• Gain buy-in with different stakeholders for the successful implementation of transformative initiatives and strategic programmes within Bank
• Facilitate alignment and collaboration across teams that deliver on the strategic and operational initiatives

Qualifications and experience:

• 5 years investment banking experience (preferred)
• Investment Banking products knowledge working knowledge (advantage)
• Client Onboarding and Maintenance (advantage)
• 5 years plus experience as a Scrum Master in delivery of business solutions/applications
• Co-ordinate the delivery of multiple projects
• Solid knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, to deliver solutions
• Leadership and management experience
• Excellent people and project management skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills