Scrum Master

**Overview**
- Reporting to the Agile Practice Manager this role uses agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. You will ensure all scrum based activities are completed in a timely manner, including defining and organising Scrum roles, sprint planning, daily scrum/ standups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. You will thrive on cultivating an atmosphere for high-performing team dynamics, ongoing improvement and continuous flow by training, mentoring, and supporting teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
- **Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities**
- Strategic Focus
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
- Operational Management
Manage each project’s scope and timeline.
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
- Help teams implement changes effectively.
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
- Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
- Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
- People Leadership
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.

**Experience & Personal Attributes**
- A minimum 2 years as a Scrum Master or similar role
- Certified Scrum Master
- Possess excellent knowledge of agile methodology, techniques and frameworks including scrum, SAFe or Kanban to deliver solutions
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables.
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated people leadership
- Invested in Agile frameworks

Link Group is a leading fund administration and share registry specialist. We are a market leading provider of technology-enabled administration solutions, continually developing our offerings to expand with our clients' needs. Since our inception, Link Group has been entrusted by clients to handle sensitive data in a secure and confidential manner. Our core businesses of fund administration and securities registration are complemented by our expertise in digital solutions and data analytics.

Our Retirement & Superannuation Solutions division combines its proprietary technology, process and people to deliver a comprehensive financial data solution to its superannuation clients. We support clients across all superannuation fund sectors including government, industry, retail and corporate.

By accompanying our core member and employer administration with a full range of value-added services, we offer the most comprehensive superannuation administration solution on the market. The scale, adaptability and ease of use of our proprietary systems, in conjunction with our integrated analytics offering, allow us to innovate and grow with the needs of our clients.

Link Group is building a dynamic, client focused, caring and inclusive culture that is built on the foundations of an entrepreneurial spirit, effective risk management, empathy and trust, and underpinned by its core values.

We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of the Link Group journey and together we will achieve our full potential.

We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or political belief, marital or family status or carers responsibilities.