Scrum Master

Job details

Scrum Masters are full-time team coaches and servant leaders that create, reform, and sustain agile teams and develop deep knowledge of agile practices, principles and cultures in themselves and the individuals around them.  The Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating several team events, such as sprint planning, showcase, team retrospectives and daily scrum, as well as contributing to larger Release Train activities such as system showcases, release train retrospectives, scrum of scrums and PI planning.

While not responsible for the work at hand, the Scrum Master is responsible for protecting the team and enabling them to fulfil their sprint and PI objectives, as well as working to resolve the various impediments that affect the team throughout the process.

Scrum Masters enable teams to effectively deliver work by setting up and maintaining the measurement processes (effort, complexity, etc) and work visualisation standards for their team, along with inspection and adaption processes based on forecasted and actual work delivery outcomes.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Deliverables for the Scrum Master include, but are not limited to the following:

Experience of working in Data Warehouse area

• Role requirements:
  

• Educate others in agile methodologies, techniques, processes and tools and provide coaching, leadership and training in line with agile methodologies.
  

• Accountable to develop comprehensive delivery backlog with top-down planning, efforts      estimation, task tracking through DevOps process.
  

• Responsible for providing visibility of work status through reports and dashboards.
  

• Build and sustain relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities and achieve delivery outcomes.
  

• Resourcefully facilitate program delivery using agile practices, processes and tools, including rituals such as sprint planning, scrum meetings, iteration reviews and retrospectives and developing agile artefacts.
  

• Plan, forecast and resource multiple releases at once.
  

• Identify and analyse risks, issues, opportunities, develop and lead change strategies, and monitor outcomes to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  

• Design and implement agile operating working models and strategies based on localised context and requirement.
  

• Build and sustain relationships with stakeholders and/or other government agencies and industries to identify opportunities and achieve delivery outcomes.
  

• Facilitate and lead complex agile ceremonies, provide recommendations and manage outcomes, through servant leadership.
  

• Resolve complex issues using professional knowledge and experience and identify and analyse alternative courses of actions and their implications.
  

• Negotiate deliverables, support levels, and workflows to ensure effective delivery of business outcomes; and
  

• Contribute towards knowledge and skills transfer.
  

• Understanding of Data Warehouse is preferred.
  

• Any other tasks, as directed by the buyer.
  

• Experience of working in Data Warehouse area