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Scrum Master

MoneyFellows

MoneyFellows

Product
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2024
About Us:

At Money Fellows we believe that there is only one way to build an outstanding organization; and that is to attract exceptionally talented people who are aligned with our mission, thrive on challenges, and are passionate about problem-solving. Being a market leader in the digital FinTech space, we facilitate to our customers the easiest and fast digital financial solutions which can enhance their lives. We are operating now in Egypt with a clear vision toward expansion in the region. We aim to build an inspiring organization with an engaged and high-performing culture. Joining the team now would mean that you could have a direct impact on the company’s growth trajectory. If you are hungry to make an impact and develop your skills in a dynamic environment, collaborating with like-minded people, we want to hear from you.

About the Role:

As a Scrum Master, you will be ensuring that development teams follow Scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Schedule and facilitate scrum events, meetings, discussions, collaboration, decision-making, and conflict-resolution processes
  • Guide, coach, and support scrum teams on how to use and sustain agile values, principles, and practices
  • Help employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development
  • Work closely with the Product Managers to ensure groomed product backlog
  • Guide team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
  • Help teams with the planning and identifying goals and actions to achieve them
  • Help the team make progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team member’s progress, and protecting the team from distractions
  • Monitor progress and performance and help teams make improvements
  • Track and remove impediments & risks of the delivery team by navigating up and across the organization
  • Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
  • Plan and coordinate activities across multiple teams ensuring requirements are clearly communicated
  • Coach the company in its Scrum adoption, working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the company
  • Keep the risk registry updated for all stakeholders to enable them to take the corresponding actions
  • Hold weekly status meetings for stakeholders to present running projects and monitor post-launch actions
  • Act as the governor of the project life cycle to ensure communications are being done on time and in the most efficient and effective way

Requirements

The ideal candidate has exceptionally high ownership, excellent critical thinking skills, and the ability to work with agility in a fast-paced environment. They would also be insanely focused on demonstrating excellence in service delivery and problem-solving, breaking down complex information into understandable and actionable items. You will be an active and contributory member of the People team, with a direct impact on the culture and business trajectory in your country.

Other Requirements Include:

  • Strong communication and analytical skills
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to convince and influence people
  • Proven experience in managing software development teams including people management of Software Engineering Teams
  • Experience in the full software development lifecycle from design to deployment, understanding best practices and trends in software development
  • Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions
  • High focus on achievement and results delivery
  • Fluent in English
  • Leadership and management experience
  • Excellent people and project management skills
  • You must be technically hands-on and have enough deep understanding of technology such that you can challenge developers and help them be pragmatic in whatever they do

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Pension Plan scheme as per company policy
  • Premium Family medical insurance
  • Exclusive access to our circles with the ultimate credit limit and reserved 1st slots
  • Unlimited annual leave policy
  • Mentorship and career growth
  • Entrepreneurial working environment