Scrum Master

About the position

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

Responsibilities

• Guides the Product Owners (POs) in discovery by practicing relevant agile techniques (e.g. journey maps) and facilitates in carving out MBI/MVP for larger epics.
• Supports PI Planning by facilitating timeous team breakouts and helps them identify their respective backlogs and dependencies.
• Guides the PO in elaboration to capture the key requirement details within Sanlam's ecosystem.
• Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct the backlog refinement cadence to slice the feature to user stories at least once within an iteration.
• Creates and manages iterations within Sanlam's ecosystem in alignment with the iteration schedule published by release management.
• Ensures daily stand ups are practiced so that the team has alignment on the value to be delivered on a given day.
• Facilitates and ensures that the team conduct iteration planning cadences to plan for iterations.
• Manages and ensures that the iteration board are kept updated to reflect the current status.
• Encourages the team to achieve a healthy burn down of user stories or features within an iteration.
• Represents the respective squads in squad sync and ensures that the teams are aligned, aware and adjusts for any technical dependencies.
• Works closely with End to End team, Ways Of Working Support Services team and other support structures to ensure smooth functioning of the squads.
• Facilitates in show and tell (iteration demos and integrated system demos) and ensures the squads are able to effectively present their deliverables.
• Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct retrospectives every iteration ensuring inspect and adapt principles.

Requirements

• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous.
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in a fully Agile and DevOps environment.
• Utilisation of dashboards, KPI/metrics and burn down charts.

Nice-to-haves

• Engineering practices
• Jira and Confluence
• Behavior Driven Development methodology
• CI/CD pipeline and the master run executions
• The release process
• Scrum principles
• Product development process knowledge
• Agile methodology
• Sprint methodology and project management
• Reporting and Administration

Benefits

• Opportunities for growth and development within the company.
• Strong, lasting relationships with employees.
• Support for personal development and achieving career goals.