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SCRUM Master

Key responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to build effective and collaborative project / work stream teams with a shared sense of direction in an Agile environment.
• Be the key liaison point between the product owners and development team, ensuring objectives are realistic and then delivered.
• Organise and run Scrum ceremonies, ensuring Scrum principles are followed.
• Collaborate and coach Product Owners in Scrum to ensure Product Owner.
• Ensure Sprint goals and definition of done are always defined and agreed by the work streams.
• Set clear standards for how work streams should be working, how Azure DevOps should be used and what metrics are required to track; backlog size, sprint size, capacity, progress/velocity and quality of output.
• Continuously monitor the usage of Azure DevOps to ensure Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and tasks are clearly defined in terms of activity and size, and are updated.
• Create, own and manage the overall Agile release plans.
• Identify problems and weaknesses and provide coaching/support to help remedy the problem/weakness.
• Create sprint metrics and distribute to Application Development Manager and Technology Project Manager.

Work with the Technology Project Manager.

 

Qualifications and experience:

Education/Qualification

• Degree in Computer Sciences or similar (Preferable)
• Scrum Master certification

Knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience working as Agile Scrum Master.
• Capable of successfully leading and coaching multiple Scrum Teams in and Digital Technology, Agile Environment.
• Good understanding of the holistic lifecycle of Software Development.
• Experienced in using Azure DevOps and/or Jira.
• Previous experience of implementing DevOps tools within an organisation. proficient in the areas of

Competencies

• Deep knowledge and significant experience of Agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
• Outcome focussed / customer focussed
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, a passion for agile.
• Team player, pro-active, confident, logical and tenacious.
• Strong interest in technology.
• Able to identify issues and solve problems in a logical manner.

Takes initiative to keep skills up to date and maintain awareness of developments in Insurance Technology.