Scrum Master at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Department: Engineering – PEI
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

• We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to oversee and guide scrum teams.
• The Scrum Master’s responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
• A Scrum Master that has a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams.
• An outstanding Scrum Master with excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be

• Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Train and mentor the squad teams to follow agile principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
• Facilitate internal communication and effectively
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Required Competencies and Skill Sets

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified scrum master, SAFe preferred.
• 3+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with software development.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.