Scrum Master

at  Discovery Ltd

Business Unit: Vitality Life
Function: Quality Assurance
Date: 28 Jun 2024
Discovery – VitalityLife
Scrum Master – Systems
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, selfdriven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
Key Purpose
As an experienced Scrum Master, you will oversee and guide one or more scrum teams, ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices. You will act as a mentor, motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating scrum events and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
You will work closely with the Product team to assure backlogs are well organized, and take personal responsibility for work readiness through DOR, and work completion through DOD. You will provide regular reporting to Software Engineering Managers and other stakeholders in relation to sprint progress, risks and issues, and release readiness.
You will collaborate in Scrum of Scrums assuring integrated solution schedules are tightly coupled and tracked to completion. You will act as the voice of the team, both in sharing their concerns, eliminating worries, and offering protection from upstream changes preventing collateral impact.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principals to deliver high quality products and services to our customers
• Gets the team to a high performing level by recognising areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
• Coaches the Scrum team in self organisation, cross functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively.
• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organisation
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Retrospective
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices
• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process – scheduling the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
• Providing regular reporting on sprint status, burn up, quality metrics and KPI’s
• Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of completeness for the stage and definition of done (e.g. alpha, beta, production release)
• Help those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t.
• Support the Product and Portolfio team and the Scrum Team in several ways, including:
• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood and communicated effectively to the team
• in understanding and practicing agility
• to help understand and shape the Backlog

Technical Competencies

• Act as a project manager when necessary.
• Assist with managing dependencies between our team and third parties or between our team and other scrum teams.
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile centre of excellence.
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities.
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a Scrum development team

Education and Experience

• SAFe 6.0 (or equivalent) Certified.
• Work independently and collaborate effectively across the organization.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented individual with the ability to take ownership of the task assigned.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong customer relationship skills.
• Excellent time management skill
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
• Understanding of the digital landscape
• Deep understanding of Agile working practices
• Experience coaching and mentoring

Please refer the Job description for details