Scrum Master

Job Type: Contract
Posted: about 3 years ago
Contact: Aparna Sharma
Discipline:
Reference: 209215_1612242203
  • Initial 6 months contract
  • Experience within financial services highly desirable
  • Previous Experience within Data Analytics Project highly desirable

About the role

Our client is looking for Agile qualified Scrum Masters to run ICT development projects from 5-6 team members up 15 developers and analysts.

This is an opportunity to utilise your knowledge of the SDLC and apply project management principles and practices to deliver applications projects in a fast paced environment.


Responsibilities

  • Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
  • Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
  • Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Skills and experience

  • Previous experience as a Scrum Master
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
  • Overall understanding of technologies used in the Data Analytics
  • Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
  • Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

For more info please contact Aparna on Aparna.sharma@peoplebank.com.au