Senior Scrum Master

Summary

The IT company Andersen invites a Senior Scrum Master to join its team for working with a company from Saudi Arabia.

The customer is a holding company in the labour market in Saudi Arabia, operating under the Ministry of Labor. It leads the socio-economic transformation for individuals, society, and the economy by creating unique solutions to fulfil everyone's needs.

The project is a platform with a set of tests and courses for teaching and managing the educational process.

The task is to perform a variety of tasks to maximise the Scrum Team’s performance and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Champion adherence to the Scrum framework, including all its ceremonies and artefacts.
• Utilise techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
• Ensure clear and concise Product Backlog items for the Scrum Team.
• Understand and apply product planning in an empirical environment.
• Optimise Product Backlog arrangement for maximum value with the Product Owner.
• Practise and promote agility within the team and organisation.
• Coach the Product Owner in prioritising and refining Product Backlog items.
• Guide the Development Team in self-organisation and creating high-value products.
• Remove impediments to the Development Team's progress.
• Facilitate Scrum events, and promote Scrum Values and Agile principles throughout the organisation.

Requirements

• Experience as a Scrum Master for 2+ years.
• Demonstrated evidence of ability to champion adherence to consistent application of the Scrum Framework including: 3 roles; 5 events; 3 artefacts; and 2 standards for artefact transparency being Done and Ready.
• Proven experience identifying a Scrum Team’s gaps in the Scrum Framework and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on Scrum Values, Agile Manifesto values and principles.
• Proven experience writing Agile User Stories with Acceptance Criteria and breaking them down into smaller tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, inspire and motivate people to change their values and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like Executive Sponsor, program/project managers, line managers) to become servant leaders and to empower people who use the Scrum Framework.
• Proven experience creating velocity tracking (e.g. Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown) using Agile project management software (JIRA).
• Excellent verbal communication skills in conflict resolution and negotiation.
• Level of English – Upper-Intermediate and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn additional up to 1,700 EUR per month by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!