At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead high-impact Scrum teams and facilitate agile development processes.
- Company: Join Gururo, a fast-growing tech startup delivering innovative software solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy remote work flexibility, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Ideal for those passionate about agile methodologies and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment while empowering your team.
- Qualifications: 4+ years as a Scrum Master with strong communication and leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 134190 - 164010 $ per year.
Gururo is a fast-growing tech startup focused on delivering cutting-edge software solutions to our clients.
We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Scrum Master to join our dynamic team.
As a Scrum Master, you will play a vital role in facilitating the agile development process, ensuring efficient and effective delivery of our projects.
This is a remote position based in Australia, providing flexibility and the opportunity to work from the comfort of your own home.
Responsibilities
- Agile
Facilitation: Act as a servant leader and coach for the development team, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles, practices, and ceremonies.
Facilitate Scrum events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Team
Empowerment: Foster a collaborative and self-organizing environment where team members are empowered to make decisions, take ownership, and deliver high-quality work.
Provide guidance and support to the team, removing any impediments or roadblocks that may hinder their progress.
- Agile
- Process
Management: Ensure that the Scrum framework is followed consistently and that the team is using agile best practices.
Help the team to define and track sprint goals, monitor progress, and maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation.
- Stakeholder
Communication: Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between the development team, product owner, and other stakeholders.
Help the team to clarify requirements, manage expectations, and address any conflicts or challenges that may arise.
- Continuous
Improvement: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
Identify opportunities for enhancing the development process, optimizing team performance, and increasing overall productivity.
Actively seek feedback and implement strategies to drive continuous growth and learning.
- Metrics and
Reporting: Track and analyze project metrics, such as velocity, burn-down charts, and cycle time.
Provide regular reports to the team and management, highlighting progress, risks, and areas for improvement.
Requirements
- Scrum Certification: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification is strongly preferred.
- Strong Knowledge: In-depth understanding of Scrum principles and agile methodologies. Familiarity with other agile frameworks such as Kanban is a plus.
- Excellent Communication: Exceptional communication and facilitation skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients.
- Leadership Abilities: Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and fostering a positive and motivated work environment.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify and address issues promptly, with a focus on finding practical and effective solutions.
- Flexibility and
Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving startup environment.
Able to adapt to changing priorities and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Remote Work: Demonstrated experience working remotely and effectively managing distributed teams.
- Technical Background: Basic understanding of software development concepts and technologies is desirable.
Leading the project team into delivery in an agile environment to manage and deliver project scope within budget.
Ensure project phases completes on time and on budget.
Managing Scrum team, managing the backlog, sprint planning.
Running daily team huddles.
Coordinating releases.
Delegating stories to team members.
Managing defects.
Working knowledge of Agile Scrum, delivery across multiple scrum teams.
Coordinating with other project and technology teams for example to align data requirements.
4+ years experience as scrum master/project manager.
Understanding of Capital Markets is a must.
Managed projects for the last 4+ years in an agile delivery methodology.
Excellent communication skills.
Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Able to investigate, analyse and troubleshoot tasks.
Some technical background and willingness/attitude to look at technical detail if required.
Understanding of financial products in general and derivatives trading technology platforms in particular especially focused on IRD, FXD and FI asset classes.
Familiarity with data structures, SQL queries and stored procedures.
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