Scrum Master at NRF National Research Foundation

About the position

Postion Summary:
This Scrum Master supports multiple agile teams across diverse, complex projects. They act as mentors, problem-solvers, and agile process guardians, fostering positive team dynamics and removing obstacles to progress.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and lead meetings, including planning, progress, review, retrospectives and problem solving workshops, leading average or few teams and ensure alignment across teams
• Provides coaching not just to the team but to the manager to help align agile practices with organizational goals
• Identifies and at times implements process improvements on an average scale and partially helps drive organizational change
• Monitor and distribute relevant alerts raised with Operations and RFI Alerts channelsResearch and propose new technologies, systems, methods or approaches, with the purpose of utilizing the suggested invention within the organization
• Continuously learn and acquire new or additional skills, improve current skills, and execute a self-development plan
• Work with software engineers, the technical lead and the systems engineer to update, review and automate, where applicable
• Documents to be updated:Establish and maintain working relationships with members of other SARAO teams
• Work with other software team members to respond to inter-team issues
• Public outreach and education

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelors Degree / Advanced Diploma / NQF 7

Minimum Experience:

• 2-5 years

• B
• Tech/B
• Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 5+ years; ORB
• Eng/B
• Sc Hons (Comp Sci or related field) with 4+ years; ORM
• Eng/M
• Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 3+ years; ORPhD/D
• Eng with 2+ years;Scrum Master Certified

Experience:

• Agile knowledge and expertise in scrum and other agile methodologies, often including experience with scaling frameworks like SAFe
• Experienced in mentoring or, and leading multiple agile teams or projectsAwareness and experience with Agile techniques: User stories, test driven development, continuous delivery, and pair programmingServant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparencyDetermining milestones, roadmaps, and the plans Enable teams to self-organise, self-manage and deliver

Knowledge:

• Continuous improvement Agile knowledge and expertise in scrum and other agile methodologies, often including experience with scaling frameworks like SAFe
• Positive influencing teamCommunication and facilitation Stakeholder Management, understanding and managing team dynamics, fostering collaboration
• Willingness to play a leading role in mentoring and coaching developers, product owners and managers
• Ability to participate and thrive in a collaborative environment
• Self-motivated and an ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently
• Facilitate and lead meetings

Additional Notes:
Risk identificationModern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA, Miro [URL Removed] and experience in implementation of project management and system engineering [URL Removed] in supporting systems like revision [URL Removed] and Collaboration: Cooperates with others to achieve organisational objectives and may share team resources in order to do this. Collaborates with other teams as well as industry [URL Removed] and report on the implementation of features and [URL Removed] teams from distractions and unrelated \ unnecessary [URL Removed] NRF website provides more details on the initiatives and activities Applicants should submit a comprehensive CV by registering and apply online through the NRF Recruitment and Selection Portal. Applications should be accompanied by a letter of motivation indicating the applicant·s suitability for the position. The names and contact details of at least three referees should be provided.

Desired Skills:

• Skilled in applied field of position
• Knowledge to be relevant
• Responsible in performing duties

About The Employer:

The National Research Foundation (NRF) supports and promotes research and human capital development through funding, the provision of National Research Facilities and science outreach platforms and programmes to the broader community in all fields of science and technology, including natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spearheads South Africa’s activities in the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope, commonly known as the SKA, in engineering, science and construction. SARAO is a National Facility managed by the National Research Foundation and incorporates radio astronomy instruments and programmes such as the MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo, the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) in Gauteng, the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry (AVN) programme in nine African countries as well as the associated human capital development and commercialisation endeavours.