12 month with 1 extension, must be Australian citizen and have baseline clearance, ACT & Sydney preferred – Offsite considered

Close date: 31st March 2023

Estimated Start date: 1st May 2023

The Organisation 

Federal Government Department

Your New Role

The Scrum Masters works across multiple teams and areas fostering and growing Agile principles, processes and practices. As servant leaders, they balance delivery requirements with complex improvement initiatives fostering a culture of continuous improvement and Agile excellence.

The Scrum Master researches and understands modern Agile trends and practices and educates and trains other to progress the capabilities and understanding of Agile techniques and practices. They facilitate and deliver several complex Agile ceremonies across multiple teams, including program increment and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, scrum of scrums, retrospectives and showcases to internal and external stakeholders, including cross-agency attendees.

The Scrum Master designs and 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

About You

You will need the following experience and skillset:

  • Educate others in agile methodologies, techniques, processes and tools and provide coaching, leadership and training in line with agile methodologies
  • Identify and analyse risks, issues, opportunities, develop and lead change strategies, and monitor outcomes to foster a culture of continuous improvement
  • Design and implement agile operating working models and strategies based on localised context and requirement
  • Build and sustain relationships with stakeholders and/or other government agencies and industries to identify opportunities and 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
  • Research agile trends, industry dynamics, frameworks and tooling to guide the DOHAC’s agile maturity

Role Deliverables

  • Alignment of the Agile Team and Product Owner to the Scrum process and Health Scaled Agile method.
  • 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:
    • Iteration Planning;
    • Backlog Refinement;
    • Iteration Review;
    • Daily Stand-up; and
    • Iteration Retrospective.
  • Track Iteration progress (day-to-day work), removing impediments, to enable commitments to be fulfilled.
  • Guide and develop the team in normalised estimating techniques to help estimate User Stories, Features and EPICS.
  • Ensure all work meets the Team Definition of Done.
  • Assist the team to prepare and contribute to the Agile Release Train (ART) System Demo (showcase).
  • Manage dependencies with other teams.
  • Collect Scrum Metrics, for analysis with the team to identify improvement opportunities and inform reporting.
  • Help foster code quality practices through ensuring peer reviews and IT Standards are followed.
  • Support the team to prepare and contribute to the Agile Release (ART) Program Increment (PI) Planning events, System Demo (showcase), and the PI Inspect/Adapt workshops.
  • Support the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Product Manager with ensuring the Program Kanban board is transparent and kept up to date.
  • Attend and contribute to the Scrum of Scrums. Escalate issues in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to Scrum Master Chapters and Communities

Selection Criteria

Essential skills and experience

  • At least 2-3 years recent experience as scrum master in the Commonwealth environment.
  • Experience working in project delivery using agile methods.

Desirable:

  • SAFe Scrum Master certification
  • Other Agile certification

How to Apply

Send a response via our contact form or email cian@ictanalyst.com.au