Senior Scrum Master needed at Juru Holdings

Tasks and Responsibilities

Team Delivery:

• Lead/facilitate agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning (including effort sizing), sprint retrospectives,
• Maintain scrum board (TFS / Jira experience is advantageous), Product backlog, Sprint backlog
• Optimise team’s work focus: Clear obstacles for the team; Protect team from outside interference/ interruptions allowing them to focus on the work
• Ensure SDLC governances and best practice are complied with
• Grow the adoption of agile practices (champion & guardian)

Planning

• Liaise with Product Owner and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, resourcing.
• Create short to medium-term flight plans to provide delivery context for larger deliveries

Reporting

• Analyse team’s sprint performance; report on delivery progress and cadence

Personal effectiveness

• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality
• Communicates clearly and timeously
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Problem solving aptitude
• Collaborates effectively with others to meet deliveries
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Aligns to ways of working and team culture
• Knowledge and/or experience of working within either Agile and/or other project methodologies

Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Project Management or related fields
• Scrum Master certification
• Relevant Scrum Master experience in Financial Services IT
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, TeamFoundationServer
• Background in Accounting and Tax preferable
• Advantageous: experience in Human Capital, Actuarial and/or Financial reporting