Scrum Master

**Role: Scrum Master**

**Location: Singapore**

**Fulltime Permanent Role**

**Key Accountabilities**
- Drives the team towards continuous improvement
- Supports the Team to incrementally increase productivity and unblock them
- Drives the discipline of Agile Way of Working and facilitates core ceremonies
- Works closely with the Product Owner and leads the Team in their Sprint deliverables
- Collaborates with project team members from various domains to monitor, develop and execute project plans
- Timely and effective communication of project health to key stakeholders

**Job Duties & Responsibilities**
- Drives outcomes by facilitating agile ceremonies to maintain the discipline
- Represents the team at Scrum of Scrum ceremonies, and reports impediments requiring escalation
- Captures team level agile metrics for continuous team improvement
- Enables the team to make work visible to each other / stakeholders, and facilitates stakeholder engagement and reviews
- Provides a clear cross-team / cross-platform and 3rd party interaction model
- Ensures dependencies (across team, upstream / downstream) are understood, and required cross Team delivery is aligned and escalates unresolved dependencies as required
- Has expertise in the use of Enterprise Agile tool stack, and a working knowledge of the tools
- required to support the Software Engineering Lifecycle
- Ensures all impediments to the teams’ progress are cleared and the team can focus on their work
- Manages risks, and ensures mitigations are identified and driven to resolution
- Works with the Product Owner and Team to ensure the Product Backlog is “Ready” for the next Sprint (meets Definition of Ready)
- Builds trust within the Team and Stakeholders, by collaborating on shared goals and creating a “Safe-To-Fail” resilient Team culture
- Responsible for making sure the team lives by the values, principles and practices of agile
- Coaching the team to employ agile best practices and ensures all tools and methods are in place for teams' success
- Coaches the team for high performance creating a collaborative environment, and building a continuous improvement mindset within the team
- Protects the team to maintain focus on value delivery, reducing waste, preventing over committing
- and/or complacency, and ensuring space for innovation
- Ensures the Teams successes and failures are celebrated
- Actively seeks and participates in a variety of Learning Opportunities such as Communities of Practice, Conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and Community

**Requirements**:

- 5-8 years overall IT experience
- 4-6 of those as Scrum Master preferred delivering complex software delivery projects with cross boarder teams using Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Distributed Agile, SAFe, LeSS etc)
- Delivery experience in mobile development and / or web development utilising open source technologies (Native IOS Swift, Java, Android, ReactJS, etc).
- Experience working at an organization going through an Agile transformation
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills
- Possess keen sense of urgency and ability to work with distributed teams
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Gherkin language, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube
- Professional Scrum Master Certification (preferred)

**Core Competencies**
- Should have Agile experience/knowledge of key agile techniques including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, and SAFe
- Experience in working with agile lifecycle management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, MS Teams)
- Solid understanding of core engineering practices (e.g., DevOps, agile software test engineering practices)
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Takes a Collaborative approach to problem-solving
- Strong Passion for continuous improvement

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $7,500.00 - $10,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday