At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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Key accountabilities and decision ownership :
Guide and coach multiple Scrum teams (2-3) with different team sizes, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.- Be the guardian of a medium to large, fairly complex scrum team
- Facilitate medium to large team organization on Agile ceremonies.
- Align your teams around clear goals and encourage direct, positive involvement in all aspects
- Grow team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
- Ensure full transparency with velocity, burn down/up reporting, and communicating team progress with value focused metrics
- Leverage your expertise to change mindsets, empower team members, and build a great team
- Responsible for facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, backlog grooming / refinement and retrospective meetings.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution for the team(s)
- Remove internal or external impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
- Ensure observance of DoD (definition of done)
- Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Work as a release manager (where applicable)
- Align with the PO on the agreed feature list and related release date.
- Manage each sprint with cross functional teams with all sprint activities.
- Make sure with the PO that all stories are added on Jira with their details and assigned per each feature.
- Manage the Sprint planning meeting, ensure proper sizing and estimate per story from all team members. .
- Prepare the build plan after sprint planning and based on team capacity.
- Handle Daily scrum with the development team to align and ensure that the team is on track with the build plan and sprint goal.
- Coach and mentor team members on agile standards and best practices; ensure consistent best practices are applied across the work streams.
- Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
- Manage & Own regular project’s status meeting/ mails/calls with relevant stakeholders, aligning them with the deliverables per sprint / release.
- Prepare and attend monthly dashboard review with the management team.
- On spot risk raising for management, asking for support if any.
- Set Sprint review meeting and demos with the PO to confirm on the delivered scope.
- Plan for retrospective meeting (Internal and External). Enhance process while moving forward with the development team and ensure that the corrective actions are taken.
- Support Handover, on boarding and KT sessions for all team members with a proper planning.
- Measure every team member performance supporting capability mangers in their evaluations.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
At least 5 years of experience in software development with at least 2 years of dedicated full-time Scrum Master experience in software development- Experience working in large-scale products and/or programs
- Experience with SDLC (both Waterfall and Agile hands on experience)
- Experience in Agile / Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira)
- Experience being a Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams
- Strong understanding of software development life cycle and DevOps.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
- Experience in applying Scrum patterns and techniques (like Burn-down techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
- Master of JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
- Documentations (backlog, sprints, releases etc.)
- Agile project plans, progress updates & reports
- Effort & timeline estimates & tracking
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
Proven hands-on experience in managing projects in agile environments, especially, in a facilitator role.- Technical background (optional) and ability to understand architecture & technical issues to drive effective agile delivery.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and team building skills; articulate and able to steer a meeting with presence.
- Ability to maintain calm attitude during difficult situations and handle pressuring situations.
- Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Experience in maintaining and reporting against relevant metrics (i.e. burn down and velocity, risks, timelines, etc.). In timely manner.
- Strong team player with an ability to identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint & project goals.
- Self-starter & self-motivated with a drive to identify opportunities for improvement across the agile delivery processes.
- Highly independent, takes ownership, does not need to be told what to do and seeks feedback and execute actions.
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Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
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