Scrum Master

• Scrum Master
• 12 months fixed term role
• Adelaide Based Position

Looking for an experienced Scrum Master to guide Agile teams in delivering high-quality outcomes. Facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, and promote continuous improvement. Collaborate with stakeholders, support backlog management, and foster a transparent, high-performing team environment focused on value delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and coordinate program increment and sprint events for the team
• Coach and help the team members to adopt and apply Agile values and principles.
• Reflect on current ways of working and innovate using various techniques to ensure continuous improvement.
• Drive end to end delivery execution including planning, sprint iteration management, dependency coordination, risk and issue management, and deployment activities.
• Build strong executive and stakeholder relationships, maintain transparent communication with business owners, program leadership and sponsors on progress, risks and outcomes.
• Develop techniques for incorporating BAU support work with delivery work.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to enable effective Product Backlog management and ensure product backlog items are prioritised and ready for the team to action.
• Report progress to Agile Capability Lead and other leaders as required.
• Ensure key artefacts that support success measures are understood and kept up to date.
• Ensure key delivery artefacts are created by the team to support delivery outcomes.
• Resolve conflicts and remove impediments that occur by engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Help teams implement changes effectively.
• Develop a productive and positive environment where team members ‘own’ the product.
• Actively explore latest Agile practices and why those practices benefit delivery.
• Coordination and communication with all team members around Incidents, Service Requests and Product Backlog as required.
• Participate in knowledge sharing to ensure key information is available and accessible to all, in line with Knowledge Management Framework and relevant processes.
• Actively encourage and grow the Agile development environment to deliver high quality solutions.
• Work with other Scrum Masters on strategies and techniques to apply to the Scrum Team/s.
• Coach the teams on Agile concepts, values and principles to others at differing levels of understanding.
• Lead and encourage team empowerment/ownership of ceremonies (everything from stand-up sessions to refinement sessions to story creation).
• Actively participate in team learning and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Participate in the Agile Community of Practice.
• Identify, assess and manage risk in day-to-day decision making and planning.
• Consider and comply with internal, legal and regulatory obligations in day-to-day decision making and planning.
• Participate in formal risk identification, assessment and management activities as required.

Qualifications:

• Scrum Master Certification (Essential)
• Good technical acumen with a high level of technical insight and understanding to make keen judgements about the technology aspects of the work
• Good business acumen to make keen judgements about the implementation aspects of the work
• Experience in facilitating workshops, meetings, work efforts or outcomes with the ability to facilitate objectively to guide the team to effectively problem solve
• Experience in collaborative and creative problem solving
• Ability to effectively resolve conflict that arises during team processes
• Ability to translate Agile values and principles to help the team incorporate them into their delivery practices

Apply Now or reach out to Ivan Aureus at 0480 806 152 for a chat.