Scrum Master
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Job description
The Scrum Master is known as the guardian of the scrum team, someone that resolves impediments and has control over the scrum processes. The scrum master provides effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills supporting the agile development framework. In addition, the scrum master promotes inspection, adaptation, and transparency within the context of a scrum team.
Other major parts of the role are facilitating the scrum ceremonies. This includes making sure the team is working smoothly and every team member has the tools to get their work done efficiently. The scrum master will facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews, and work closely with a product owner to perform sprint planning and backlog refinement. The scrum master must understand the priority set by the product owner, and execute the backlog as wished, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality. The scrum master requires commitment to building a strong collaborative environment with the team and the company.
The project affects multiple business units, large end-user populations, corporate client delivery, applications, and other areas of delivery within the organization. As such, this position is critical to ensuring the appropriate stakeholders are included in the communication plans. The position requires someone with excellent communications skills (verbal and written) works well under pressure, and effectively work with disparate teams throughout a diverse business community. This position requires extensive knowledge of scrum/agile methodology. The knowledge of IT processes and supporting technologies, and how these technologies integrate within projects and the existing environments is a must..
Day to day:
- Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies - daily stand-up, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning, and other meetings as needed
- Work with Product Owner, cross-functional development team to support business value delivery
- Track and report on development team metrics such as velocity, risks, sprint burndown, release burndown, cumulative flow, etc. and works to improve the efficiency of the development team
- Remove and/or escalate impediments as necessary
- Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences
- Build relationships with other organizational scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
- Ensure development team is working efficiently towards sprint goals
- Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect
- Forecast numbers of deliverables possible in and integration, which is based on evidence and reliable sources.
- Coach the development team and project stakeholders on agile and scrum practices, processes and tools
- Recommend process improvements and assist in changes as needed
- Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.
- Lead and coach the organization in its Scrum (and/ or SAFe)S@S(Simplify @ Scale) adoption;
- Cause change that increases the productivity of the Scrum (and/or SAFe) Team
- Ensure successful hand-over of the project products into IT and Business operations to support the achievement of the business benefits.
- Manage customer and stakeholders' expectations in coordination with respective Relation Manage and Business Solutions members.
All members enjoy
- Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
- Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
- Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
- Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
"We lead the way in meeting the need for flexibility and transparency which our customers increasingly expect"
Requirements
Do you have experience in Software development?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Technical or Business subjects
- 3-5 years of experience in development or testing in a software development organization
- 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master (or equivalent experience with other agile methodologies)
- Experience using ADO (Azure DevOps) software
- Excellent team player with proven ability to influence
- Highly adaptable to a change environment
- Able to give and receive open, honest feedback and to foster a feedback environment
- Excellent communication written and verbal
- Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to team development
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of Test Driven Development
- Demonstrated coaching and mentoring skills
- CSM Certification
- Possible Travel (10%)
- Experience within financial services.
- Presenting to executive level management.
Extras:
- Ability to influence without direct authority and broadly collaborate within and across teams.
- A decision maker that utilizes data, meets commitments and always considers the customers' perspective.
- Very good at building relationships.
- Quality driven and results oriented and ready to go above and beyond to deliver results.
- A strong team player who significantly contributes to the DLL environment and shares knowledge and expertise.
- Innovative, entrepreneurial and eager in servicing your customer.
Benefits & conditions
DLL's wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.
Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:
- Connection - Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
- Health - Manage mental, emotional and physical health
- Finance - Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
- Lifestyle - Maintain balance between work and life priorities
These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL