Scrum Master at Inventions Technologies Company Limited October 2024

Scrum Master at Inventions Technologies Company Limited October 2024

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Role Overview

1. The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model, helping us to become a leading digital company.
2. The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching agile methods, and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity.
3. This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution.
4. This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks.

Note: Attach your Scrum Master Certificate.

Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership

1. Support the Product Owner in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations.
2. Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team.
3. Track and report on the status of all team members and the delivery.
4. Facilitate key agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
5. Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices.
6. Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning.
7. Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team.

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience

1. Role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same.
2. Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community.
3. Natural “servant” leader, with strong ability to coach and develop others, an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, and focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.
4. Viewed by the wider organization as an effective and consistent collaborator, influencer, and negotiator, able to highlight internal and external dependencies and break down complex blockers.
5. Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives.
6. Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed.
7. Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure.
8. Strong grounding in traditional project management practices.
9. Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes.
10. Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends.
11. Experience in Agile software development environments and methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD.
12. Proficiency with Agile ceremonies, tools, and artefacts, e.g., retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators.
13. Skills in user story definition and team backlog management.
14. Ability in backlog item estimation.
15. Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools.
16. Familiarity with DevOps culture, processes, and tools.

How to Apply:

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