Agile Scrum Master - Contract R500 - 550 per hour

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking an Agile Scrum Master to join their team in Cape town on a 6 to 12 month contract. They offer stability, growth, exposure and a great working environment. As a Scrum Master, you'll be responsible for ensuring that the Agile team's projects are delivered on time and within budget. You will manage the team's workflow by enforcing rules and guidelines while ensuring each project meets quality standards. You'll also work with other teams to ensure they're delivering as expected under your guidance. *Requirements* * Responsible for coaching self-organising, Agile teams to operate more effectively * Provide functional guidance to the team(s), a development methodology that allows a team to self-organise and deliver change quickly. * Coach the teams to: Ensure the effective use / application of Agile practices * Self-Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos * Align to the client Recipe * Responsible for facilitating/coaching scaled Agile ceremonies * Coaching of team Agile ceremonies (Daily stand-up; team demo; team retrospective; team planning; team sprint and iteration review) * Participate in PI Planning * Participate in Scrum-of-Scrums * Participate in Large Scale Retrospective * Participate in Large Scale Delivery Demos * Actively engage several teams to support large scale planning * Provide guidance to ensure the effective use / application of Agile practices and tools * Responsible for coaching of the configuration, integration, reporting (metrics), and adoption of relevant configuration tools (i.e. JIRA; Confluence) within teams * Responsible for coaching of teams to continuously review and gain performance, delivery and governance related insights from the teams' performance metrics * Promote transparency from team to portfolio * Update the organisation on the teams’ progress and escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team * Work with the team to become self-sufficient in their agile practices, mature enough to not need full time support from a Scrum Master * Assist and coach teams to ensure they understand the importance of delivering to agreed timelines (end of development iteration) * Assist and coach the teams on the importance of removing organisational impediments impacting delivery Provide assistance to the programs and teams to ensure refinement of work from portfolio to team * Coach the team in the importance of removing obstacles that are impeding progress * Facilitate cross-team coordination throughout program increment * Provide facilitation support to the Product Owner with regards to the process of program\team backlog refinement and prioritize the product backlog * Provide support to the Team Leads with regards to the basic agile practices across multiple teams in a program * Provide support to the mature agile teams on an ad hoc basis * Drive continuous improvement during the delivery process and in the team’s * Agile maturity. * Responsible for continuous im