Senior Scrum Master

Job Title:Senior Scrum Master
Education:Bachelor’s Degree
Location:Egypt, Giza
Category:IT/Software Development, Project/Program Management, Engineering – Telecom/Technology
Description:
  • Guides teams to a culture of focus, improving the organization of their work through sprint planning and reviews throughout a project life cycle
  • Guides departments and teams towards cross-functional orientation by serving as an Agile consultant, helping plan and coordinate new workflows and patterns and scheduling of task assignments and goals
  • Guides and coaches scrum teams to follow Agile/Scrum principles and practices and reinforcing SAFe framework
  • Ensures scrum teams are using best practice agile delivery tools and templates for all processes including documenting and tracking user stories
  • Maintains the scrum team capacity plan, scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts
  • Continually monitors the progress of team members across department boundaries and provide support to engage employees to achieve goals
  • Manages risks and issues proactively, including resources, costs, and systems, and recommending appropriate solutions
  • Forms partnerships across departments to streamline work processes and improve the speed at which the company can respond to and capitalize on opportunities
  • Integrates technology into employee workflows to increase the speed and accuracy of changes to improve the results of these work processes, emphasizing continuous improvement
  • Complete monthly status reports and present to upper management
  • Support Product Owners, especially in regard to developing, refining and managing the product backlog
  • Escalates issues in the implementation of Agile methodologies to expedite process correction, creating strategies that resonate with the culture of the organization
  • Preparing, coordinating, and supervising systems implementation.
  • Reports on the status of delivery using agreed reporting metrics e.g. burndown
  • Creates and maintains documentation
Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of relevant experience in Agile development including coaching on agile methodologies
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile and Lean methodologies
  • Expert level proficiency with common project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams
  • A high proficiency in verbal and written English
  • Experience of managing Agile projects and personal responsibility for delivering projects
  • Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
  • Familiarity with software development methodologies
  • Familiarity with how machine learning systems are designed and implemented
  • Ability to foster an environment of collaboration and accountability
  • Effective and efficient written and verbal communication skills and excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize according to business/ clients’ needs
  • Proactive in solving problems
  • Effective stakeholder management and communication
  • Scrum master certification is a plus
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