Scrum Master

We’re blazing a trail toward an independent retail future and our awesome Information Technology Team makes sure we’re always ahead of the game. Whether using analytics tools to solve complex business problems, or digitising processes to improve the ways we work, our tech specialists are the forward-thinking experts ensuring our retailers future success.

As the demand for data and insights continues to rise, we are seeking an enthusiastic and flexible **Scrum Master**. In this role, you will be responsible for fostering and facilitating the agile team's adoption of agile frameworks, eliminating obstacles and barriers, and ensuring the successful implementation of new initiatives and improvements.

We have a dedicated team at the Metcash Group that plays a vital role in harnessing data as a strategic, accessible, and valuable asset. This team supports various business units by providing data, insights, analytics, and machine learning/artificial intelligence capabilities.

**What you’ll do**
- Promote and support teams’ continuous improvement in quality and delivery output.
- Build and maintain relationships with Scrum teams, and other internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organisational project or product teams.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to engage, inform, influence and negotiate with stakeholders about priorities of the team/project using product backlogs as the basis for discussions.
- Coach the Agile Team to be self-organising and cross functional.
- Promote team-level metrics (that support continuous improvement)
- Assess capability maturity per Sprint.
- Ensure that the knowledge embedded within the team contributes to & leverages the content within
the Knowledge Repository.
- Report status and updates to Portfolio lead and lead the team’s preparation into PI Planning

**What you’ll bring**
- Experience with agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and Lean
- Extensive knowledge of The Scrum Guide, The Agile Manifesto, and the 12 Agile Principles.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team using agile ways of working.
- Understanding of planning in an empirical environment
- Demonstrated facilitation and presentation skills.
- Ability to solve problems assisting the business in decisions through use of analytical tools.
- Support the product owner to find effective techniques for backlog management.

**What we can offer**
- Hybrid working - flexibility is in our DNA.
- Free on-site parking and close to public transport
- An extra week of annual leave after your first year as part of our Fifth Week program, and the opportunity to purchase annual leave to help you recharge.
- Our Met Health wellbeing program is designed to help you enjoy work/life balance and get the most out of life.
- Access to 12 paid weeks of gender-equal parental leave for primary carers, and three weeks for partners

We’re all about celebrating success, and we’re proud to be a WGEA Employer of Choice for Equity, an accredited Flex Ready workplace, and a Gold Standard Mental Health First Aid skilled workplace.

If you’re a tech-savvy thinker with a love for local communities, you’ll discover a fulfilling career and an opportunity to redefine the future of independent business.

**Make your Mark