Scrum Master

at  PPS Recruitment

JOB ADVERT SUMMARY

Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team who help educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. Scrum Masters help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
The Scrum Master primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
Scrum Masters work with the extended Scrum Master community, including SAFe Program Consultant, Release Train Engineer, Product Owners and Architecture to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Science or Information Technology
• Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance)

EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• 1 - 3 years’ experience leading teams as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment in IT, Financial Services or Consulting.

Preferred

• Experience as part of an Agile software delivery team as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, Agile Project Manager.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (MAXIMUM OF 10):

• Group facilitation approaches
• Good knowledge of servant leadership
• Scrum/Agile software development methodologies
• Software development
• Coding and designing
• Business Process and Analysis
• Product backlog understanding and management
• User stories knowledge