Senior Scrum Master

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About the Client:

Join one of Egypt’s premier financial institutions, renowned for its extensive suite of banking services, including Institutional Banking, Personal Banking, and Islamic Banking. With a global presence through over 50 branches and correspondents, we serve a diverse and dynamic clientele. As we embark on a groundbreaking digital transformation journey, we are committed to leveraging the latest technologies to establish a state-of-the-art data architecture that will redefine our performance and service delivery.

Role Overview:

We are seeking exceptional Senior Scrum Masters that will ensure that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, as well as providing mentorship, eliminating team impediments, and improving our processes and decision-making. To succeed in this position, you will need a firm grasp of agile practices, strong problem-solving and project management skills, and the interpersonal and leadership skills to effectively manage development teams. 

The role is hybrid if you are located in Cairo or fully remote for international contractors.

About the contract:

• The role is a long-term (one-year renewable) contract position
• The payments are paid out in gross amount in USD on a monthly schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Use agile methodology, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
• Train, mentor, and support scrum teams
• Determine and manage tasks and action items
• Schedule and facilitate scrum meetings and events, including sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily standups
• Monitor progress and performance and help the team to make improvements
• Manage project scope and timeline and track project processes, deliverables, and financials
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards
• Plan and organize demos and product and/or system testing
• Manage issues and risks and remove impediments from the scrum team
• Serve as the primary point of contact for external communications with customers and stakeholders
• Prepare and present status reports to stakeholders
• Participate in agile bootcamps and upskilling agile early adapters squads/teams

• 5+ years of experience on a scrum team
• Scrum master certification, is a must
• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or a related field
• Experience in a leadership or management role
• Experience in a scrum master role, preferred
• Experience successfully utilizing Agile techniques
• In-depth knowledge of scrum techniques and artifacts
• Knowledge of other Agile frameworks
• Knowledge of software development
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent Agile delivery practices build plan, planning, conflict management, dependency and risk management and stakeholders management.
• Fluency in English and/or Arabic