Scrum Master

1 week ago

Canberra, Australia HAYS Full time

Join a Canberra based Federal Government Department as Scrum Master

**Your new company**

This Canberra based Federal Government department looks after national security, law enforcement, emergency management, border control and more. A core IT focused branch within the Department is currently transitioning their delivery methodology from traditional Waterfall to the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

**Your new role**

In your new position as Scrum Master, you'll be responsible for:

- Facilitating sprint planning, backlog preparation, refinement and prioritisation, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
- Identifying risks and issues and advising the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and/or Program Manager of any significant risks to delivery.
- Monitoring budgets, advising of risks to delivery and remediation planning.
- Managing and working closely with the agile team and a large number of stakeholders.
- Coaching and transferring knowledge within the scrum master group and agile teams.
- Program Increment (PI) Plans and Sprint Plans.
- Test Plans, Risk and Issues logs.
- Delivery, budget and governance reports.
- Guidance, ‘How To’, and presentations as necessary.

**What you'll need to succeed**

**_ Essential_**
- Minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Scrum Master within a SAFe environment and a current SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) certification
- Proven experience identifying an Agile team’s gaps in SAFe and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on SAFe Values and Principles and the Agile Manifesto.
- Proven experience writing Epics, Features and User Stories with acceptance criteria and breaking down into smaller tasks as necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to coach, inspire and motivate people to change their mind set 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 to adopt SAFe
- Proven experience creating velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down) using either Agile project management software (e.g. ADO, Octane).

**_ Desirable_**
- Ability to coach staff (including Scrum Team, Executive Sponsor, Project/Program Manager/s and key stakeholders) on the correct way to interpret metrics for the Scrum’s performance, progress of work and agility maturity.
- Exposure to Agile practices such as Extreme Programming (XP) techniques e.g. Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Ability to coach, develop and empower individuals in emotional intelligence; how to handle and resolve conflict; and how to give constructive feedback to form a high performing, self-organising teams.
- Experience regarding the execution of Sprint Retrospective formats.

**What you'll get in return**
- A 12-Month Contract
- 2 x 12 Month Possible Extensions
- A competitive hourly rate ($120 - $150/hr inc. Super depending on experience)
- A north Canberra based office

**What you need to do now**

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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