Scrum Master needed at Kazang

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage each project’s scope and timeline and facilitate scoping and estimation by teams.
• Actively structure and drive product increment (PI) planning for your squads.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, daily stand-ups, and other Scrum ceremonies.
• Take ownership of the development work pipeline to ensure predictable delivery. 
• Establish, monitor, and maintain sustainable team velocity.
• Helping the squad focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks and guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles or impediments that occur.
• Help teams implement changes and ad hoc requests effectively.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.
• Building psychological safety as well as accountability within your teams.
• General management of schedule, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation, including cross-team, cross-project, and customer delivery dependencies.
• Provide status reporting, develop key metrics, identify, and mitigate risks, manage stakeholder expectations around delivery timelines.    

In order to be considered for this position, the following requirements must be met:

• Matric
• Scrum Certified.
• 3-5 years’ experience as a Scrum Master.
• 2-5 years previous experience working in a software organisation using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Proven exposure to software development environments and typical SDLC and processes.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills.
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability. 
• Outstanding organizational skills.