Scrum Master (Project Manager in FINTECH) at Skyline Movers

The Agile Transformation Group is supporting a Global IT Consultancy that is running a huge project for a Leading Financial Services Company based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The bank currently requires Scrum Master.

Rates: Market Related

100% remote now, 50% remote post covid 19.

This is a B2B contract hire 

What you will be doing:

• Facilitate the delivery of working software from concept to live using Agile methodologies
• Help align business goals with release plans to ensure timely delivery of features
• Fostering collaboration among teams and protect the team from external influences or distractions
• Arrange and lead agile ceremonies, daily scrum, sprint planning, refinement sessions, discovery sessions, sprint demo and retrospectives
• Challenge to team to improve on process and inspire them to find new better ways of working
• Help identify and mitigate delivery risks
• Drive, track and communicate the progress of sprints and releases through team velocity and burn down charts
• Enable the CFT to ensure the team has all they need to deliver

What you will bring to the role:

• Strong practical experience and understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD and TDD
• Having worked in teams delivering complex projects on time and schedule, resolving problems at team and organization level
• Has strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience managing stakeholder and teams
• Experienced in estimation techniques and planning for software development projects
• Experience in effectively collaborating with wider non-agile teams
• Stakeholder management with statistics around tasks, backlog tracking, and burn down metrics, velocity, and user stories etc.
• Exposure and experience with the SDLC; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance and with service orientated architecture
• Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production
• Professional experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub