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IT & Telecomms / Project Management / Team Lead

Contract or Temp

Position : Scrum Master

Location : ACT

Gateway Synergy is looking for highly experienced Scrum Master contractor for a government department.

The Role:
The Scrum Master will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to: 

• Facilitating sprint planning, backlog preparation, refinement and prioritisation, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives. 
• Identifying risks and issues and advising the Program Manager of any significant risks to delivery. 
• Managing and working closely with the agile team and a large number of stakeholders. 
• Coaching and transferring knowledge within the agency and agile teams. 

The Scrum Master will be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to: 

• Program Increment (PI) Plans and Sprint Plans. 
• Test Plans, Risk and Issues logs. 
• Reports related to delivery performance and governance. 
• Delivery Framework, Guidance, ‘How To’, and presentations as necessary 

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Scrum Master within a SAFe or agile environment and a current SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) certification or equivalent.
• Demonstrated evidence of ability to champion adherence to consistent application of the agile practices.
• Proven experience identifying an Agile team’s gaps in agile and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on agile values and principles.
• 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 agile.
• Proven experience creating velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down) using either Agile project management software.

Desirable criteria:

• 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 high performing, self-organising teams. Experience regarding the facilitation and execution of Sprint Retrospective and Showcase formats.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• 11 month contracting role, 1 extension of 12 months
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.
• Remote arrangement possible
• Below the line role

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORTUNITY”

If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0485 835 307

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