IT Scrum Master at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer’s needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Scrum Master

Location: Lagos
Department: IT

Job Purpose

The scrum master is the team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use.

The responsibilities of this role include:

Clearing obstacles
Establishing an environment where the team can be effective
Addressing team dynamics
Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team
Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
Reports to: Technical Delivery Manager
Supervises: Functional Process Lead, Functional Business Analyst, Business Champion

Key Role & Responsibilities

Scrum master is responsible to facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.
Should be a friendly communicative person, because when team is moving fast in Agile, communication is the effective force which holds the team together.
Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
Needs to be expert in estimation and planning. He knows how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects.
Should be a good coach in Agile practices. S/he can coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
Ability to shield his team from outside distractions and interferences.
Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum process.
Ability to track and remove impediments.
Scrum master is a servant first, who serves his team members before considering about himself.

Duties

Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.
Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
Acts as safeguard for his team.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Industrial Engineering
+5 years’ experience in IT project management in a business application environment
Certifications in any of the following: Prince2, Agile/Scrum, PMP
Demonstrable ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
Reporting and briefing skills to senior business stakeholders

Job-Specific Competencies P2P
Technical:

Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban XP, etc.
Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum, which really works.
Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like: Kanban, Crystal, FDD, XP, etc.
Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate his team.
Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team needs.
She/he should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time.
Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices.
Familiar with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, Power BI & Reporting and Data warehouse.