Senior Scrum Master

Exaze; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A top software company in Johannesburg is looking for a Scrum Master with 8-10 years of experience in Agile environments. You will lead multiple scrum teams, facilitate Scrum events, and mentor the team towards self-organization and high performance. Relevant Agile certifications and extensive experience with the Scaled Agile Framework are mandatory. This is a full-time position with a mid-senior level designation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 – 10 years' experience as a Scrum Master.
• Extensive experience working within Scaled Agile Framework.
• Relevant Agile certifications (CSM, SSM, PMI-ACP) are a must.

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum master for 2 – 4 scrum teams.
• Facilitate Scrum Events ensuring focus and productivity.
• Guide / coach / mentor the development team.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Coaching

Scrum practices

Team dynamics improvement

Education

Bachelor of Science or relevant qualification

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow IT Management

Job description

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At Exaze, we constantly seek exciting talent to join an organization that believes in nurturing dreamers, innovators, and doers willing to expand their horizons in the software industry.

Key Purpose

Is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team that does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level

Help form a self-managed team that is motivated, predictable, transparent and consistently delivers quality work and continually inspects and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the Agile values, principles and practices

Implements agile best practices within a team

Helps the development team, business and management develop a culture of collaboration - Act as a change agent to the team and organisation

Supports the team to be self-organising and function as an accountable, high performance team

Focused and goal driven and helps to achieve the Sprint goals

Responsibilities

Act as Scrum master for 2 – 4 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

Facilitate Scrum Events ensure that they are focused and productive (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming)

Help facilitate Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning Sessions

Assist the Product Owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet delivery time frames

Guide / coach / mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and ownership of the product – lead the team to a self-organised state

Build a high performing team, focusing on improving team dynamics and performance, help the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.

Help the team make achievable sprint commitments with the use of velocity data and team availability

Requirements

Bachelor of Science or relevant qualification

Minimum 8 – 10 years' experience as a Scrum Master - non negotiable

Extesnive experience working within Scaled Agile Framework - is a must

Relevant Agile certifications (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), PMI-ACP).

Technical Skills

Knowledge and / or experience of Kanban, Jira, JQL, ServiceNow IT Business Management (ITBM)

Candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted, please note that if you don't hear from us within a week consider your application as unsuccessful.

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Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting