Scrum Master
The Position:
The Scrum Master manages
the Agile practice execution, ensuring it is understood and enacted. The
primary goal of the Scrum Master is to assist the team in meeting delivery
goals and operates as a servant leader who helps team to self-organize,
self-manage, and deliver via effective Agile practice and shall be the
facilitator for our agile team working under the scrum methodology. The
role holder will be responsible for delegating tasks appropriately and ensuring
the team is working on the right tasks at the right time. He will also work
together with Technology relation team and product owners to ensure a healthy
product portfolio and to translate epics, stories, and other items on the
sprint list into actionable tasks for development organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership
and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and
practices and their application for the delivery of projects and business
initiatives and acts as an evangelist for adoption agile methodology
within the enterprise.
- Ensures
that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive for project
delivery while facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict
resolution and helps to remove any impediments to the project delivery.
- The
Scrum Master guides, facilitates, coaches, mentor and teaches agile
standards and Scrum practices (e.g., Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps,
SAFe, LeSS etc) to the scrum, project teams and the whole development
organization.
- Organizes
and facilitates and leading scrum ceremonies (sprint planning meeting,
daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospects etc), events,
meetings, and decision-making processes. Collaborates closely with Product
Owners and Technology Relationship Management teams to prepare and clarify
the Prioritized Product Backlog and the Definition of the Done Criteria
and facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Reviews with the product owner.
- Facilitates
identification of the stakeholders and manages the stakeholders and
vendors as required for business projects or initiatives
- Responsible
for creating release plans including deliverables and the release
deadline, plans and estimates the highest value deliverables for the next
release
- Demonstrate
and Validate Sprints by facilitating presentation of completed Deliverables
by the Scrum Team for the Product Owner’s approval
- Supports
the Scrum Team in determining the length of sprint, creating the
deliverables, identification of tasks and effort estimation for the tasks
agreed for a sprint.
- Monitoring
progress and performance of the scrum teams and institute mechanisms
geared towards making improvements in terms of self-organization,
productivity, and efficiency.
- Keeping
the organization up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects
& initiatives by preparing and presenting status reports to
stakeholders.
The Person:
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s
Degree preferably in Information Technology or related field from a
recognized institution.
- 5
years’ progressive experience in Information Technology with at least 3
years’ experience successfully implementing projects using Agile &
Scrum methodology.
- Scrum
Master Certification is required.
- Technical
knowledge of software development processes and procedures.
- Experience
in administering burndown technologies, retrospective formats, and
handling bugs.
- Strong
interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.’
How to Apply
The above position is
demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration
package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate
your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our
Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by Monday 12th December
2022.
Qualified candidates with
disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
