Old Mutual Financial Advisor Vacancies – Scrum Master

Job Description:

The role of the Scrum Master is to facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. The Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communication to the team and outside of the team.
• Ensure agile processes are followed and work with the teams to help them adopt the process that works best for the team.
• Stakeholder management.
• Consults on IT strategy and architecture from technical and business perspectives.
• Provide progress updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Provides technical and solutions advice.
• Aligns across other teams at Scrum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Adapt delivery plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks.
• Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible.
• Ensure project teams are practising the core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Support the business outcome owners and delivery teams as necessary.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Risk and issue identification and management.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and demos.

Job Requirements:

• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Ideally, experience of running distributed teams and distributed agile.
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills including exceptional client facing/consulting skills.
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand ups,
• Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Experience in software development projects.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.

Qualification & Experience:

• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• Successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices and introduced Agile techniques and have coached teams to apply them effectively.
• Very strong technical background either as a Business Analyst, Software Developer, Quality Analyst or Project Manager.
• Matric certificate with relevant qualification.
• Good understanding of business IT.
• Proficient in managing scope in an Agile project and facilitating the user story lifecycle in close collaboration with the customer/Business
• Outcome Owner, including breaking down complex requirements into independent user stories, capturing detailed acceptance criteria, building a release plan with user, managing the backlog, running showcases.

Job Details:

Company: Old Mutual

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pinelands, Western Cape, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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