Strategic Agile Scrum Master - Lead Teams & Delivery

Old Mutual South Africa; Cape Town; In loco; ZAR 900.000 - 1.300.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Old Mutual South Africa seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead multiple Scrum teams within a financial services environment. You will facilitate ceremonies, manage backlogs, and drive agile practices across releases and risk management, ensuring timely value delivery for business stakeholders.

The role emphasises collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven performance improvement, with SAFe/Scrum knowledge and strong facilitation skills.

Competenze

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master in a Financial Services business.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily standups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.

Mansioni

• Lead Scrum ceremonies, remove obstacles, and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution to enable the most effective work delivery by development teams on small projects.
• Plan and replan software releases for medium-sized projects to ensure timely updates and to deliver the planned benefits as early as possible.
• Review the backlog of work for a small project and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.
• Promote a culture of innovation by creating solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
• Execute and deliver elements of the digital road map, leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation.
• Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating matters where appropriate.
• Collate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats.
• Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Carry out delegated activities to support the deployment and effective utilization of project resources.
• Carry out delegated activities to support the production of workstream and project plans that identify and organize all the activities needed to deliver project objectives and that comply with the organization's project management framework.
• Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion.

Conoscenze

Scrum Master

Agile Methodologies

Facilitation

Stakeholder Management

JIRA/Confluence

Formazione

NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

Strumenti

JIRA

Confluence

Descrizione del lavoro

Old Mutual South Africa seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead multiple Scrum teams within a financial services environment. You will facilitate ceremonies, manage backlogs, and drive agile practices across releases and risk management, ensuring timely value delivery for business stakeholders.

The role emphasises collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven performance improvement, with SAFe/Scrum knowledge and strong facilitation skills.