Scrum Master
Seeking an experienced Scrum Master to assist Scrum teams in further building out their Agile maturity and assist transition to DevOps.
Summary about this job
Team Leaders
Company: Modis
Location: Sydney
Work type: Contract/Temp
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-8-6287-5425
Fax: +61-8-7335-2557
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Detail information about job Scrum Master. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Sydney CBD Location
- Uplifting Agile Maturity
- Long Term Program (CI/CD - DevOps Enviornment)
Client
Our client is a National brand with a stable and long standing presence in the Australian market.
Resonsibilities
• Do what is needed to help the team perform at the their highest level - uplift Agile maturity levels
• Encourage and enable productive daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
• Provide coaching and leadership in agile methodologies and implementation within the teams
• Shield the teams from outside distractions and interferences
• Assist the Product Owners to ensure the product backlogs are in good shape and next sprint ready.
• Contribute to writing user stories and requirements with the Product Owners
• Maintain on-going analysis of pattern to provide improvement of the team and performance using your knowledge of tasks, backlog tracking, burndown/up, velocity, etc
• Use and maintain knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Working closely with the team continuously following up on issues until they are closed off and software solutions delivered.
The Challenge
• Apply your servant leadership and situational awareness to assist the teams in facilitation, continual improvement, empowerment and transparency
• Ensure prioritisation and readiness of the backlog including; defects (bugs), features, enhancements, debt and stories.
• Be highly adaptable, welcoming of change and understanding that directions evolve.
• Managing and setting realistic expectations, and communicating goals/progress in all directions
• Team building, working closely with all members of the team to provide motivation, celebration of victories and resolution of conflicts before they become issues.
• Continue to build and foster a trusting and safe environment without judgement, fear, blame or retribution.
• Use your skills and knowledge to foster and environment of continuous growth, empowerment and improvement with in the team.
Qualifications/experience
• Minimum first level Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM)
• Technical understanding/experience working with teams implementing CI/CD, DevOps and Microservices is a must.
• Applied experience within software development team using scrum principles, practices and theory as an active Scrum Master
• Sound knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, DevOps Kanban, XP, etc
• Technical savvy in the processes and tools used in development.
• Solid negotiation and management skills for Stakeholders and the team
• Experience in delivering projects as part of a agile team
• Planning experience
Desired Traits
• Great organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Empathy for the team, product owners and stakeholders and the challenges that they
• Owns mistakes and gives credit
• JIRA/Confluence experience
• Ability to think analytically and be a problem solver
• Sense of humour and humility
• Previous experience as a developer in an Agile practicing team
If this sounds like you, APPLY NOW !!
Or reach out to Ankit Sharma in our Sydney Offices via [email protected]
“Modis is an Equal Opportunity employer, committed to all forms of workforce inclusion. We actively invite and encourage applications by candidates from diverse backgrounds”