Black Pen Recruitment
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
Scrum Master – Information Technology, Software
Job not on LinkedIn
November 3
Black Pen Recruitment
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 • 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 • Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices • Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress • Promote empowered, self‑organising teams • Uphold Definition of Done, quality gates, and compliance with organizational standards • Communicate with other SCRUM masters and product owners across the organization • Utilize team feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity • Support the team in using agile planning and development tools • Experiment with new practices and frameworks to improve team outcomes • Actively participate in learning opportunities
🎯 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 • 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 • Good knowledge of systems-thinking and process tailoring • Good knowledge of team motivation and stakeholder engagement techniques • Good knowledge of Agile metrics and the ability to build and interpret dashboards • Tool proficiency in Azure DevOps (preferred) or Jira • Possession of Scrum Master certifications: PSM II (or higher) and SAFe 5/6 Agilist • Experience with one or more scaled Agile frameworks is considered an asset • Excellent command of the English language.
🏖️ Benefits
• B2B Contract • Remote within the EU • Possibility to work with multinational corporations
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