Scrum Master

Primary purpose of the role

The Scrum Master guides and coaches Scrum teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.

About the client

The client is responsible for the delivery of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) led investments in clinical care, business services and smart infrastructure, providing a digitally enabled and integrated health system that delivers quality patient centred health experiences to the people of NSW.

Key accountabilities

· Ensure Scrum is understood and the product/project team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, guidelines and increasing the scrum maturity in teams.

· Facilitate all scrum events within the team, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

· Recommend and implement changes and adaptations during the sprint retrospectives, which improve the efficiency or effectiveness of processes and/or enhance quality of outcomes.

· Identify and resolve team impediments to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization demonstrating servant leadership.

· Build and maintain relationships with Scrum teams, Agile Coaches and other internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organisational project or product teams.

· Collaborate with Product Owners to engage, inform, influence and negotiate with stakeholders about priorities of the team/project using product backlogs as the basis for discussions.

· Work collaboratively and participate in the appropriate communities of practices with Product Owners, other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches within the stakeholder community to promote and understand Agile practices, rules and values.

Key challenges

· Establish collaborative and influential relationships with stakeholders, customers and colleagues, to ensure easy and effective achievement of team / project / business goals.

· Effectively balance competing demands.

· Contribute to creating and maintaining a constructive workplace culture.

Essential Requirements

· Qualifications or equivalent experience in an Agile framework or method, such as Scrum and Kanban.

· Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Project and Visio or equivalent.

Selection Criteria

· Comprehensive understanding, and experience in Agile project management methodologies, tools and their application.

· Understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.

· Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.

· Proven capacities to develop and implement initiatives, including the capability to plan, manage change, improve performance and project manage.

· Demonstrated organisational skills and experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with proven capacity to prioritise, multi-task, achieve business goals, perform and always work with a customer focused approach.

· Well-developed communication, facilitation, negotiation, coaching skills, interpersonal and influencing skills with previous experience engaging, collaborating and influencing key stakeholders and customers to influence and achieve optimal business outcomes

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.