Scrum Master (SFIA5 - Unranked Merit Pool) Scrum Master

The Scrum Masters works across multiple teams and areas fostering and growing Agile principles, processes and practices. As a leader, they balance delivery requirements with complex improvement initiatives fostering a culture of continuous improvement and Agile excellence. They facilitate and deliver several complex Agile ceremonies across multiple teams, including program increments and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, scrum of scrums, retrospectives and showcases to internal and external stakeholders, including cross-agency attendees. The Scrum Master implements Agile operating models and strategies for newly formed projects and existing delivery areas while considering the current and historical context and delivery timeframes and targets. They develop and foster strong working relationships with internal, external and cross-agency partners and stakeholders. Key duties and responsibilities The Scrum Master Uses the agile methodologies, techniques, processes and DevOps Tool. Alignment of the Agile Team and Product Owner to the Scrum process and Health Scaled Agile method. Design and implement agile operating working models and strategies based on localised context and requirement. Lead new or existing projects, meeting deadlines and requirements. Identify and analyse risks, issues, opportunities, Create change requests and monitor outcomes to foster a culture of continuous improvement. Build and sustain relationships with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve delivery outcomes. Facilitate and lead complex agile ceremonies, provide recommendations and manage outcomes, through servant leadership. Resolve complex issues using professional knowledge and experience and identify and analyse alternative courses of actions and their implications. Negotiate deliverables, support levels, and workflows to ensure effective delivery of business outcomes. Assist the team to prepare and contribute to the Agile Release Train (ART) System Demo (showcase). Help foster code quality practices through ensuring peer reviews and IT Standards are followed.  Manage dependencies with other teams. Ensure the Team’s Story and Scrum boards are transparent and kept up to date. Ensure all key events take place and are effective and collaborative. This includes: o Iteration Planning. o Backlog Refinement. o Iteration Review. o Daily Stand-up; and o Iteration Retrospective. o Track Iteration progress (day-to-day work), removing impediments, to enable commitments to be fulfilled. Contribute to Scrum Master Chapters and Communities. Partner with Product owners, technical leads and architects to shape and prioritise backlogs for Microsoft D365 and related platform work Delivery reporting in Altus providing status reports and burn up/burn down on budget. The seller must ensure that the Labour Hire worker performing the services during the term of this contract, facilitate an effective transfer of skills and knowledge to the buyer to enable full use of services and deliverables and associated documents. Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria 1. Minimum 3 years recent experience as scrum master in the Commonwealth IT environment or similar computing environments. 2. Experience working in large scaled agile environment with multiple teams. 3. A strong Understanding of the SAFe methodology and its applications within large complex programs within a government context. 4. Experience working with internal and external stakeholders. 5. Proficiency in using various IT applications and project management tools including MS Suite, Azure, DevOps. Desirable criteria 1. Extensive internal/external Stakeholder engagement. 2. Experience in large scale ICT transformation programs 3. Tertiary qualifications 4. Microsoft D365 experience and • DevOPs experience Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 1 candidate Number of sellers invited Between 5 and 10 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia