Scrum Master – Parktown needed at Hollard Insurance
Job title : Scrum Master – Parktown
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : May 16, 2024
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Role Purpose:
- The Scrum Master will be dedicated to a single Scrum team focusing on Integration. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder engagement & Communication
- Serve as liaison between Business, technical and non-technical departments.
- Communicate with other teams e.g. developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues.
Development
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Maintain process documentation.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Application Support
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
People leadership
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
- Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Empower the team to self-organize.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- 5 – 8 years Project Management and 2 years Scrum Master experience preferably within Financial Services
- Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, procedures and SDLC
- Sound understanding of short-term insurance, Hollard’s platform and languages
- Strong leadership, conflict resolution, analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
- Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types collaboratively
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
- Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems, Ccomputer systems design , Computer science, or equivalent
- Certified Scrum Master
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