JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Role purpose:
To support growth areas in VOIS it requires a highly capable and experienced Scrum Master. This role will be responsible for facilitating an end-to-end agile culture within the delivery in (System Engineering & Automation. You will manage, execute agile process & take full accountability for bringing agility to your project delivery. You will work very closely with technical delivery leads/product owners, solution architects, integration engineers, system integrators and software developers and ensure the deliveries happen in time, on budget & effectively follows the agile best practices & principles.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Take E2E ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles & practices for the delivery of the project he/she handling.
- Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution, and enable the exploration of alternatives or different approaches & ensure no impact on the delivery of projects.
- Coach and mentor their team members on agile standards and best practices; ensure consistent best practices are applied across the work streams.
- Align with PO/ business representative on the agreed feature list and related release date.
- Make sure with the PO that all stories are added on Jira with their details and assigned per each feature.
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Manage the Sprint planning meeting, ensure proper sizing and estimate per story from all team members. .
- Make sure sprint planning commitments based on team capacity.
- Handle Daily scrum with the agile team to align and ensure that the team is on track with the build plan and sprint goal.
- Set Sprint review meeting and demos with the business representative to confirm on the delivered scope.
- Plan for retrospective meeting (Internal / External). Enhance process while moving forward with the development team and ensure that the corrective actions taken.
- Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
- On spot risk raising for management, asking for support if any.
- Manage stakeholders and vendor interfaces as required for technical delivery and report on project progress & activities.
- Manage & Own regular project's status meeting/ mails/calls with relevant stakeholders, aligning them with the deliverables per sprint / release.
- Ensure the correct setup & usage of CDI tools for projects & ensure project documentations are up to date for every sprint.
- Support Handover, on boarding and KT sessions for all team members with a proper planning.
REQUIREMENTS
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Understanding agile methodologies
- Strong interest & skills in Data analytics.
- Excellent communication, presentation & reporting skills
- Proven track of managing complex software projects with agile methodology in scrum master role.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Proven hands-on experience in managing projects in agile environments.
- Technical background and ability to understand architecture & technical issues to drive effective agile delivery.
- Exceptional 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.
- Highly independent, takes ownership, does not need to be told what to do and seeks feedback and execute actions.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.
We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.
Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.
