Senior Scrum Master

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Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

Purpose of the Job

Scrum Masters are servant leaders, facilitators and coaches for an Agile Team. Scrum Masters help educate the team in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe principles, ensuring that the agreed Agile practices are being followed. Scrum Masters also facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. The Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve their goals. The Scrum Master also helps the team coordinate with other teams in the programme .

You would be :-

• Scrum Facilitation and Support

• Leadership and Membership

• Agile and Transformation

• Metric and Reporting

• Strategic Planning and Execution

Experience, knowledge & skills required

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Experience: 3-5 years of experience in a Scrum Master role

• Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), or similar Agile certifications are preferred.

The Recruitment process:

• TA Interview: This will be a discussion with a member of the TA Team to give you an understanding of our business, our culture & values and more context on the role. It will also allow up the opportunity to get to know you a little better, and ensure OMI can meet your needs

• Panel Interview: This will be with 2 members of the senior leadership of the data team and 1 member of the HC leadership team

• Technical & Psychometric Assessments: These will depend on the role and will sometimes happen concurrently with MIE & Internal Verification

• Final Feedback

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Facilitate the Agile Scrum process and ensure that teams adhere to its principles and practices. Manage the teams' workflow and ensure that they have all the resources they need to complete their work. Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure that the product backlog is well-defined, prioritized, and refined. Lead scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Identify and remove impediments that may prevent the teams from achieving their goals and work towards continuous improvement of the teams and processes.

ResponsibilitiesAgile Development Team Facilitation

Lead Scrum ceremonies, remove obstacles, and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution to enable the most effective work delivery by development teams on medium-sized projects.

Agile Release Planning

Plan and replan software releases for large projects or programs as they are produced to ensure timely updates and to deliver the planned benefits as early as possible in the project or program.

Agile Backlog Management

Review the backlog of work for a small project and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.

Culture of Innovation

Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.

Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects Execution

Lead execution of the digital road map, establishing and managing business processes, programs, and projects, resource allocation, key performance indicators (KPIs), and governance activities.

Project Risk and Issue Management

Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.

Data Collection and Analysis

Collate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats. Involves working independently.

Work Scheduling and Allocation

Develop short- or medium-term work schedules in order to achieve planned commitments. Approve overtime or use additional resources as needed.

Project Resource Management

Manage the deployment of project resources, proactively managing project costs, providing forecasts, and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.

Project Planning

Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.

Performance Management

Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance. Or manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold people accountable for achieving them, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.

Personal Capability Building

Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills

Competencies

Business InsightCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCultivates InnovationDecision QualityDirects WorkDrives EngagementDrives Results

Education

Closing Date

25 February 2025 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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