Scrum Master at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description

Job Description The PwC Deal

Our people make an impact through their dedication to client service, creativity, and high performance. Whatever your passion, the opportunities available to you at PwC will help you realise your career aspirations.

As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to a variety of flexible working styles. We're committed to collaboration and strong relationships that help our clients and our people realise their ambitions. Well known for our technical excellence, we're also a firm brimming with energetic and inspirational people who want to build a diverse career in a progressive, global organisation.

What's in it for you? The opportunity to join a diverse and progressive team, with the chance to learn from inspirational people committed to ensuring each and every interaction is an opportunity to learn, challenge and innovate.

About The Role

The Scrum Master will facilitate self-organizing, self-managing scrum teams to achieve their goals, making use of Agile and Scrum practices, working diligently to identify and eliminate impediments. The Scrum Master will also work to motivate the teams to meet commitments, help manage the team’s relationships with outside stakeholders, coordinate with other Scrum teams and facilitate continuous improvement.

Essential Skills And Experience

• Minimum of 2-3 years’ working experience with agile development teams;
• Familiarity with TFS will be beneficial

Required Qualifications

• Relevant IT degree or diploma required;
• Agile certifications such as CSM (Certified Scrum Master); CSP (Certified Scrum Practitioner)

Desirable Skills Or Attributes

• Leading and supervising;
• Working with people;
• Presenting and communicating information;
• Applying expertise and technology;
• Planning and organizing;
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations;

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Master for one to three teams, providing a learning environment to deliver business value and embodying servant leadership;
• Agile best practices so as to improve velocity, quality and the delivery of committed stories;
• Tracking and communicating team progress and communicating this to the product owners to assist them in improving the predictability of delivery to business;
• Assessing the agile maturity of the team and organization, and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization. Ensuring the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility;
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged;
• Facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution;
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog;
• Owns and coordinates all team level agile ceremonies (daily stand up, backlog grooming, retrospectives, etc.) and

The Skills We Look For In Future Employees

We're very proud of our unique culture, and expect our people to demonstrate skills and behaviours that will support us in implementing our business strategy. This is important to the work we do, both for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours are a strong component of our global leadership framework: The PwC Professional.

Diversity

We work in a changing world that offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Our strength lies in creating value through diversity.

Whether you're an accomplished professional or a promising new talent, you'll have opportunities to continuously learn, grow and advance in your career within our network. Our diverse client mix gives you an opportunity to make a difference by working with clients across South Africa and clients with a global reach.

We know that the skills and experiences you gain with us will stay with you throughout your career. So join PwC. We'll help you to reach your full potential.

Take the opportunity of a lifetime.

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