Scrum Master

Reporting to the Head – Digital Products & Innovation Factory, the Scrum Master will facilitate sprint planning, release planning participation, daily stand-ups, stakeholder demos, sprint retrospectives, and other related agile rhythms. The Scrum Master will also facilitate Product Owners in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog, and identifying and managing dependencies. The role holder will also review reports, analyze data and provides feedback to teams in support of continual improvement efforts and provide status updates to senior management accurately representing the status of the scrums and progress of agile delivery.

The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following qualifications: –

• An IT related Bachelor’s degree or Business related degree with relevant IT professional qualifications with good project management, designing and testing background.

• Must have 2-3 years serving as an active Scrum Master in a busy software development team.

• Certified Scrum Master with relevant practical experience as a Scrum Master or experience working in a Scrum Framework is preferred.

• Experienced with Lean/Agile principles with knowledge of agile methodology and approaches like scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programing (XP), Crystal, Feature Driven Development (FDD) etc.

• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures with an understanding of team needs, basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development as well as service-oriented environments and Agile practices.

• Coaching capability on agile scrum with a continuous improvement mindset to continually be growing one’s expertise, learning new tools and techniques to manage self and the team. Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.

• High level of mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills, logical, analytical mindset with an investigative, creative mind and ability to handle complex information with accuracy and attention to detail. Knows and appreciates the value of metrics and incremental delivery.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills when working with both internal business and technical people with external customers, ability to solidify vague requests, explain issues, and guide to solutions.