Senior Scrum Master

Why Smart?

Look forward to working with Australia's leading and most trusted provider of Employee Management Services, making the benefits of salary packaging, novated leasing, and fleet management readily available to employers and their employees.

Working at Smart offers more than a job. It is a dynamic workplace that matches the enthusiasm for the work you do and ambition for an exciting fast-paced career. We have all been hired for a purpose and a reason.

Every day you will be part of a team that helps support fellow Australians - many working in essential services, corporates, government, and not-for-profits - to take home more money in their pay packets.

Do you have what it takes to become a Smartgroup Senior Scrum Master?
 

The Senior Scrum Master will report to the Group Manager Agile. The Scrum Master serves as a facilitator, coach, and mentor to the team, ensuring that they have the necessary tools and techniques to effectively execute their work. The role demands proficiency in Agile methodologies, exceptional leadership skills and a dedication to driving team success.

In this role you will:

• Facilitate Agile events (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, Sprint demo/showcase).
• Coach team members on Agile concepts, values, principles, and practices.
• Identify and address impediments, risks, and blockers, ensuring timely project delivery.
• Oversee 2-3 squads to ensure timely and budget-compliant product delivery.
• Play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement across the business .
• Facilitate interactive teamwork among squads, addressing issues and mitigating risks within a complex system environment using  scrum of scrums, Kanban and scaled agile frameworks.
• Partner with various stakeholders, including senior leaders, squads, product owners, and principal engineers, to ensure timely product delivery.
• Provide reports and dashboards to leadership/management on sprint and program deliverables through the effective use of Atlassian products such as Jira.

You will have:

• Proven experience as Scrum Master in an Agile environment,
• Ability to coach team members in Agile mindset and practices
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Proven experience leading diverse and geographically dispersed teams within a fast-paced, flexible, and robust changing environment
• Proficiency in using various IT applications, delivery tools, collaboration tools (e.g. Miro) and agile delivery frameworks
• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified Agile Coach/Trainer

What's in it for you?

Smart team members enjoy a range of benefits designed to support flexibility, wellbeing, reward, and growth:

• Smart Leave, an additional week of leave each year
• Free lunch every week
• Up to 20 weeks Paid Parental Leave with superannuation contributions and a Return-to-Work Bonus
• Make a Difference Days – paid days off to volunteer for the community and environment
• Discounted retail vouchers
• Salary packaging and novated leasing benefits (of course)
• Free flu vaccinations
• Employee Share Plan

Grow with Purpose

At Smart, we're driven by purpose and performance. We support individual and team growth via varied learning opportunities, open communication, and leaders who work to get the basics right – quality and regular one to ones, clear goals and success metrics, and growth conversations.

Show us you have what it takes

If this sounds like the opportunity for you and you have something to offer, we'd love to hear from you. APPLY ONLINE today.

Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to discuss next steps. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process or are seeking part-time work, let us know—we're here to understand.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. We welcome all people to join our team — including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disability, people who identify as LGBTQ+, all gender identities, people of any socioeconomic status, age, race, national origin or ethnicity.

We're proud to hold diversity and inclusion accreditations, including:

• WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality since 2019

• DCA Inclusive Employer 2023–2024

• Member of Reconciliation Australia's RAP network

Please note: all successful candidates will be required to complete background checks including a police clearance prior to confirmation of employment. Candidates must have unlimited Australian work rights to be considered for this role.

Respectfully, no agencies please.