Scrum Master at iOCO

What you’ll do:

• Work closely with the development teams, product owners and delivery team managers to pinpoint existing process flaws and identify a prioritized agile improvement roadmap to support consistent predictable delivery.
• High velocity communicator – making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays & other issues are communicated to key stakeholders.
• Runs daily, weekly and monthly agile ceremonies efficiently and strictly.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, ensuring agile processes are followed, provide feedback to delivery teams and focus the teams on agreed sprint goals.
• Drives improvements that are generated by agile retrospectives
• Research and educate the teams regarding utilization of appropriate features of our agile management tools
• Provide update reports on Agile process for the wider organization
• Facilitate the communication across different delivery teams to resolve dependencies and impediments.
• Work with the Product Owner to protect the current sprint commitments and continually refine and prioritize the backlog
• Enforces the definition of ready for work coming into the development team
• Enforces and educates external parties about the process for submission of development work requests.
• Continuously learning and educating the development team and fellow Scrum Masters on Agile methodologies and practices
• Coach and mentor the delivery teams to increase agile maturity across the company
• Actively contributes to the Scrum Master Community of Practice
• Taking responsibility for some Business Analysis aspects such as:
• Studying business needs and eliciting requirements 
• Documenting requirements into a product backlog with clear and unambiguous acceptance criteria and business rules
• Ensuring that the requirements are delivered in the implemented solution, on time and of a top quality
• Preparing Release Notes
• Post Go-Live Reporting
• Developing and maintaining User Guides

Your expertise:

• Years experience: 7+
• A Certified Scrum Master (PSM or CSM) preferred
• Must have solid experience and understanding of the Scrum principles
• Proven experience within a Product Driven and Custom Development environment.
• At least 5 years’ experience as an Agile Project Manager or Scrum Master within an Agile environment.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Ability to coach multiple teams to reach their highest potential and deadlines
• Proven ability to work independently without supervision whilst driving decision in a collaborative fashion
• High attention to detail and sense of ownership and responsibility
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills – able to interact with a wide range of individuals from Developers, Testers and Product Owners to senior management and executives.
• Knowledge of and exposure to other software development methodologies and project management frameworks and concepts.

Qualifications:

• Matric
• Relevant IT/ Scrum Master qualification