Scrum Master/Agile Coach ( Fintech, Banking)

Full Time On Premise
Lagos
Posted 1 week ago

Job Summary As a Scrum Master, you will serve as a facilitator for the development team, you will engage in servant leadership & manage the Agile Process through guidance, coaching, and education, and removing impediments to progress. You would Support and educate the team, particularly with respect to refining and managing the product backlog, metrics useful to the company, processes that streamlines decision making, and communicating dependencies across teams. You will lead with understanding of Agile knowledge, what works best for the team given constraints, and know how to best adjust to maximize team’s success Always learning & willing to experiment within what makes the most sense for the team at the time.

Key Accountabilities

  • Facilitate daily scrum, Sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
  • Help Product Owner to prioritize product backlogs and make them ready for the next sprint Forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in a Sprint and a Release, which is based on evidence and reliable source
  • Expert in estimation and planning. Must know how to create useful, reliable, and practical plans for software development projects
  • Help overcome engineering or product management barriers and blockers
  • Good coach in agile practices. Coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Ensure all teams have clear guidelines / User stories & that test plans are in place. Monitor execution, communicate and coordinate across teams and team members.

 Key Requirements

  • 4-5 years’ experience in a similar role in a project for a reputable organization
  • Certified Scrum Master with excellent knowledge of the Scum framework, artifacts and techniques.
  • UAT/Testing Experience
  • Familiar with Jira Resource Boards, Dashboards, Filter creation, as well as familiar with Confluence.
  • Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
  • Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
  • Understand backlog grooming, burn down metrics, velocity, and BDD driven Acceptance Criteria
  • Experience as an software engineer is a plus
  • Experience operating in an Agile Environment and with CI/CD pipeline driving DevOps best practices within development teams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Job Features

Job CategoryTechnology
Minimum QualificationBachelors
Years Experience4

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