Magic Software - Scrum Master

Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES :

Good to have : Agile Certified Practitioner certification

As a Scrum master, your key responsibilities will include:

- Is accountable for ensuring the Scrum or Feature team understand Agile practices, the Scrum framework and values, and that the team uses this framework to deliver working software to satisfy Platform customers and react to their needs quickly.

- Transforms the Scrum or Feature team to become self-organising to reduce management overhead costs, using techniques such as Systems & Lean thinking.

- Guides and coaches the Scrum or Feature team on self-organising (e.g. Facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating; empowering them to take ownership of the work) to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks, to deliver more cost effective business value outcomes for the customer.

- Assesses the Scrum Maturity of the Scrum or Feature team and takes action to improve this to ensure a high performing team delivering excellent customer outcomes.

- Guides the Scrum or Feature team to work at a sustainable pace, removing peaks and troughs to allow for continuous delivery and remove impediments to reduce time to market.

- Builds a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.

- Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution to help the teams become high performing.

- Ensures the Scrum or Feature team builds relationships to promote internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information to all interested parties.

- Educates the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and maintaining the product backlog.

- Helps the Scrum or Feature team to define their ways of working and the definition of any processes that provide structure for them for example the creation of workflows in tools used such as Jira, the development of team guidelines, etc.

- Provides all support to the Scrum or Feature team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

- Actively contributes to their Centre of Excellence (CoE) specialism by cross sharing of best practice and learnings with their CoE & Community of Practice (CoP) colleagues and adhere to all standards & policies as required by CoE.

Required Candidate profile :

In order to be successful in this role, you must have the following skills & experience :

- Experience of successful Scrum adoption

- Knowledge of modern development practices and tools for example - XP, TDD, Continuous integration, build agent etc.

- Experience of changing organisational eam\ department mind-sets, culture and structure.

- Experience of coaching cross-functional teams into high performing teams.

- Understanding and experience of applying empirical process control.

- Deep understanding of the Agile Manifesto and principles.

- Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, CSP).

- Experience of automated testing frameworks.

- Experience and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

- Experience of building a culture of transparency within feature teams by empowering individuals and inspiring collaborative team performance.