Scrum Master_VOIS

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  Technology _VOIS
Posting Country:  Egypt
Date Posted:  18 Oct 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Role purpose:

To support growth areas in Software Engineering Tribe, it requires a highly capable and passionate scrum master. This role will be responsible for facilitating an end-to-end agile culture within the delivery in SWE Tribe. You will lead, execute agile process & take full accountability for bringing agility to your team delivery. You will work very closely with delivery leads, product owners, solution architects, DevOps engineers, software developers & Quality Engineers and ensure the deliveries happen in time, with good quality & effectively follows the agile best practices & principles. Your objective is to ensure that the squad you’re handling, delivers effectively in a user centric approach and as promised to our customers.
 

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

•    Take E2E (End-to End) ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles & practices for the delivery of the project he/she is handling.
•    Take the role of agile Scrum Master and facilitate discussions and conflict resolution and enable the exploration of alternatives or different approaches & ensure no impact on the delivery of projects.
•    Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
•    Coach and mentor, their team members on agile standards and best practices; ensure consistent best practices are applied across the work streams.
•    Ensure the correct setup & usage of tools for projects & ensure project documentations are up to date for every sprint.
•    Manage stakeholders and vendor interfaces as required for technical delivery and report on project progress & activities.
•    On spot risk raising for management, asking for support if any.
 

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience

•    At least 2 years of experience in software development (developer/tester/process improvement engineer) or software process improvement domain and 1 year in mentorship position
•    Having knowledge for Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira) and techniques, having Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
•    Strong understanding or experience of software development life cycle and DevOps practices.
•    Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, and Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

•    Proven hands-on experience in managing projects in agile environments, especially, in a facilitator role.
•    Technical background and ability to understand architecture & technical issues to drive effective agile delivery.
•    Good communication, organization, and team building skills; articulate and able to steer a meeting with presence.
•    Ability to maintain calm attitude during difficult situations and handle pressuring situations.
•    Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
•    Experience in maintaining and reporting against relevant metrics (i.e. burn down and velocity, risks, timelines, etc.). In timely manner.
•    Strong team player with an ability to identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint & project goals.
•    Self-starter & self-motivated with a drive to identify opportunities for improvement across the agile delivery processes.
 

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