Subject Matter Expert(TIA) Fixed Term Contract at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Mutual Insure Information Technology team in order to implement and sustain a best-practice TIA Oracle systems framework which ensures optimum management of the TIA Oracle systems.

Job Description

• Develop requirement and do unit testing (defect / enhancement).
• Develop requirement and do unit testing (project).
• Prepare technical specifications.
• Send technical specifications to technical lead for approval.
• Update HPQC and route to test analyst.
• Update HPQC with copy of technical specification.
• Update HPQC with test results and route call to Product Support Services resolver group manager (defect / enhancements)
• Senior Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is managing the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices. Senior Scrum Master manages the team to coordinate with other teams in the programme. Manages the daily activities of the project, mentors the team and track and monitor the progress of the project.
• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team. Bringing stakeholders and team closer to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as; daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
• Acts as a safeguard for the team.
• Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
• Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritizing, Daily stand ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain other methodologies to motivate their team if needed.
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Empower the team through coaching
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.

Job Requirements : Skills , Experience and Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience working as a software developer
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements.

Closing Date

26 April 2023