KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices and their application for the delivery of projects and business initiatives and acts as an evangelist for adoption agile methodology within the enterprise.
Ensures that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive for project delivery while facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and helps to remove any impediments to the project delivery.
The Scrum Master guides, facilitates, coaches, mentor and teaches agile standards and Scrum practices (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) to the scrum, project teams and the whole development organization;
Organizes and facilitates and leading scrum ceremonies (sprint planning meeting, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospects etc), events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Collaborates closely with Product Owners and Technology Relationship Management teams to prepare and clarify the Prioritized Product Backlog and the Definition of the Done Criteria and facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Reviews with the product owner.
Facilitate identification of the stakeholders and manages the stakeholders and vendors as required for business projects or initiatives
Responsible for creating release plans including deliverables and the release deadline, plans and estimates the highest value deliverables for the next release
Demonstrate and Validate Sprints by facilitating presentation of completed Deliverables by the Scrum Team for the Product Owner’s approval
Supports the Scrum Team in determining the length of sprint, creating the deliverables, identification of tasks and effort estimation for the tasks agreed for a sprint.
Monitoring progress and performance of the scrum teams and Keeping the organization up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects & initiatives by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Helping the Scrum teams agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
2. Helping the team continuously make progress on the projects by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members’ progress, and protecting the team from distractions.
3.Working with the product owners to maintain a healthy product backlog.
4.Facilitating scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospect etc) as needed.
5.Working with the Technology Relationship management to interface with the product managers so as to prioritize and ensure continuous flow of delivery to meet business needs.
Academic & Professional
- Experience
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
Bachelor’s Degree
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Professional Qualifications
Scrum Master certification
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MASTERS
MBA/Msc
AA
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required
3
Detail
Minimum No of Years
Need Type[1]
Experience of administering Burndown technologies, Retrospective formats, and handling bugs.
3
ES
An understanding of the rules and practices of other Agile approaches. This includes the differences between Scrum and Kanban and how they may be blended together for optimum results.
2
ES
Knowledge of technologies such as Extreme Programming, TDD, BDD and Crystal and their possible integration into a project based upon scrum techniques.
2
DE
An above average knowledge of technical matters in software development processes and procedures.
2
ES
Experience in Banking
2
DE
Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodology in successful projects
3
ES
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Scrum Master certification
- At least 3 years of professional experience
- At least 3 years of experience administering burndown technologies, retrospective formats, and handling bugs
- At least 2 years of understanding Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile approaches
- Knowledge of Extreme Programming, TDD, BDD, and Crystal and their integration with Scrum
- At least 2 years of knowledge of software development processes and technical matters
- At least 2 years of banking experience
- At least 3 years of experience using Agile and Scrum methodologies on successful projects
- Master's degree, MBA, or MSc
What We Do
KCB Group, is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size. The Group's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. In 2015, KCB Group opened a representative office in Ethiopia, expanding the growth of the organization. The Bank is over 124 years old having started in Mombasa in 1896. KCB Group has over 354 branches, 26,394 Agents/POS Merchants and 1,103 ATMs. The bank also offers Mobile Banking though the KCB App, Internet Banking and Diaspora Banking Services platform that can be accessed 24/7 basis. The Bank services over 26.8 million customers across the region. KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa, with an estimated asset base of approximately Ksh. 1.02 trillion as at the of end H1 2021.
