Scrum Master – Information Technology, Software

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November 3

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Black Pen Recruitment

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Fintech • Recruitment • Cryptocurrency

Black Pen Recruitment is a leading global recruitment agency specialized in FinTech talent acquisition. Based in Cape Town, the company focuses on sectors such as Cryptocurrency, Digital Banking, and Blockchain technology. With a commitment to find the best candidates across Africa and beyond, Black Pen Recruitment employs advanced headhunting techniques and a customer-centric approach to ensure a successful hiring experience for businesses of all sizes.

2 - 10 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

🎯 Recruiter

📋 Description

• Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions;• Ensure that all meetings are positive, productive, stay on topic, and are kept within the timebox;• Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog;• Coach team and Product Owner on empiricism, value‑based backlog slicing, and incremental delivery;• Track and radiate flow metrics (velocity, sprint burndown, iteration burn rate) and guide the team in data‑driven improvement;• Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices;• Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress;• Promote empowered, self‑organising teams, shared vision, psychological safety, collaborative decisions (e.g., Fist‑of‑Five);• Uphold Definition of Done, quality gates, and compliance with organisational standards;• Communicate with other SCRUM masters and product owners across the organization to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks;• Utilize team feedback and metrics (e.g., quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve;• Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Confluence);• Experiment with new practices and frameworks to improve team outcomes;• Actively participate in learning opportunities such as communities of practice or conferences to improve skills and better support the team;• Contribute to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• University Degree and at least 8 years of IT professional experience;• Minimum of 3 of dedicated experience working as a Scrum Master at SM2 level or above;• Led at least 2 production teams through full sprint cycles (planning, review, retrospective, and refinement);• Implemented data-driven continuous improvement initiatives, such as increasing team velocity or reducing lead time;• Experience coordinating cross-team work via Scrum-of-Scrums or PI Planning events;• Deep knowledge of the Scrum Guide and Agile Manifesto principles and values;• Good knowledge of facilitation techniques (e.g., Fist of Five, participatory decision-making, Liberating Structures);• Good knowledge of systems-thinking and process tailoring to fit complex or evolving environments;• Good knowledge of team motivation and stakeholder engagement techniques (e.g., information radiators, team empowerment models);• Good knowledge of Agile metrics (velocity, cycle time, burn-up/down charts, cumulative flow diagrams) and the ability to build and interpret dashboards to support team performance and forecasting;• Tool proficiency in Azure DevOps (preferred) or Jira, particularly in backlog management, dashboards, and workflow configuration;• Possession of Scrum Master certifications: PSM II (or higher) and SAFe 5/6 Agilist;• Experience with one or more scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, etc.) is considered as an asset;• Knowledge of integrating SAFe and Kanban approaches to optimize flow and delivery predictability is considered as an asset;• Excellent command of the English language.