Scrum Master

Job Description

• Maintain and ensure the continuous integration and release processes are followed.
• Provide processes that improve team performance and document all the agreements that the team defines as part of their self-organization.
• Responsible for coaching the Agile team focusing on team dynamics and performance. Help the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.
• Responsible for actively removing impediments, fostering an environment of high productivity.
• Support team rules and reinforce them from time to time.
• Responsible for the teams’ performance in terms of metrics and deliverables.
• Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
• Facilitate team meetings – daily stand-ups, iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives.
• Create and maintain JIRA processes.
• Support the Product Owner in their efforts to manage backlog and guide the team with respect to priorities and scope.
• Teach problem solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves. Escalate where necessary but only after the teams have exhausted all possible options of resolving the issue themselves.

Requirements

• Lean Agile leadership experience across multiple large and complex projects, across distributed teams, across multiple locations.
• Be a strong leader with experience in measuring Agile project against Lean portfolio metrics.
• Have strong backlog management and facilitation techniques.
• JIRA configuration and management.
• Must be familiar with software development lifecycle and understand customer centricity.
• Have strong stakeholder management skills, both internal and external, in an Agile delivery environment.
• Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure Project scope is understood and implemented correctly.
• Be an advocate of continuous improvement and industry recognized best practices in Agile.
• Strong knowledge of Gaming and Lottery, including Player Platforms, CRM features, remote gaming server integrations and Data Protection is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, risk identification and risked based planning.
• Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.
• Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring the best out of each individual.
• Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts.

Client

A global leader with a sharp focus on lottery solutions. A confident step forward building on a long history of delivering safe and secure technology, demonstrating strong commitment to customers as a dedicated lottery service provider. Leveraging collective insight, experience, and expertise to create reliable and engaging solutions that help lottery clients achieve objectives, meet player needs, and deliver meaningful benefits to communities.