Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to play a critical role in our projects. The successful candidates will leverage their expertise in project and team management. Primary focus of this role is to effectively coordinating and leading teams, managing timelines, to facilitate smooth project operation within a Scaled Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate scrum activities – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demo/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospective ensuring effectiveness and adherence to Agile principles.
- Provides visibility into the Agile team’s delivery plans and progress to stakeholders.
- Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
- Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles.
- Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs.
- Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
- Serving and supporting the development Team in their quest to do everything possible to predictably deliver high quality value to customers.
- Experience with User Story review, splitting, and sizing. Knows what a ‘good’ story is.
- Understanding of Change Management process, create Change request and adhere to Governance process.
- Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
- Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Work with Release Train Engineer and development team to effectively retro and develop meaningful metrics to support continuous improvement.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
The Candidate:
- At least 5 years of proven Scaled Agile experience.
- Proven experience in managing large projects as a Scrum Master.
- Experience operating within Financial Markets and understanding regulatory requirement associated with project initiative.
- Strong stakeholder management skills to effectively communicate, align project objectives and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Project Management and Scrum Certifications is a plus.
We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified / contacted.
Job Reference: Melvin Chua 543402
EA Registration No.: R24123531, Melvin Chua Han wei
Allegis Group Singapore Pte Ltd, Company Reg No. 200909448N, EA License No. 10C4544
