Agile Scrum Master | Melbourne

Job Description

About Capgemini 

Capgemini is a diverse collective of more than 330,000 strategic and technological experts based across more than 50 countries, partnering with world-renowned clients to transform and manage their businesses. We are dedicated to leveraging cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering, and platforms to address the entire breadth of their business needs. This passion drives a powerful commitment - to unlock the true value of technology.   

Over the last 18 months, we have tripled our business in Australia and New Zealand, with over 3,300 team members devoted to helping clients get the future they want. Now is the time to join our rapidly growing team who are at the forefront of finding new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible, collecting unique career experiences with global brands and game-changing tech projects. 

Let's talk about the team: 

Our Insights and Data team helps our clients make better business decisions by transforming an ocean of data into streams of insight. Our clients are among Australia's top performing companies, and they choose to partner with Capgemini for a very good reason - our exceptional people. Due to continued growth within Capgemini's Insights & Data practice we intend to recruit a Agile Scrum master with relevant consulting and communication skills. If you are already working in a consultancy role, or have excellent client-facing skills gained within large organizations, we would like to discuss our consultant opportunities with you. This role can be positioned to work from anywhere in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, or Perth).

Let's talk about the role and responsibilities: 

• The Scrum Master works with the Feature Lead and reports to the Engagement Manager, who will be a part of the Management Leadership team for the Account. There is a functional reporting line back to the Client Program Manager which allocates tasks to the feature team lead.
• The Agile Scrum Master role will work with the Client Feature Team Delivery Lead and Product Owner. The role will work with Agile delivery squads to deliver business outcomes. This will require both IT delivery and business objective success and will require synchronization of work, value and outcomes across the business and IT. 
• The role will require the individual to bring best practice support to teams. The role will involve setting up governance and to oversight the delivery program with the various leads.
• The following key obligations are a primary focal for the Agile Scrum Master
• Mentor and coach agile delivery across teams
• Perform the role of Scrum Master to Delivery teams and promote self organization
• Proactively Monitor and intervene to ensure consistent delivery disciplines are undertaken and proper governance and measures are in place/followed
• Support delivery and align them to value stream release trains
• Oversight and support delivery outcomes

• The responsibilities, skills and duties of the Scrum Master include:

• Help establish persistent delivery teams;

• Facilitate agile delivery based on the organisations agile delivery approach

• Work with delivery teams, business stakeholders and product owners to break down work

• Help prioritise iterative incremental delivery of business value and manage any re-prioritisation if the program changes

• Support engineering managers and value stream leads to plan for work;

• With the Value Steam Lead, help drive analysis and engagements with stakeholders;

• Provide resource and financial forecasts based on the delivery pipeline;

• As a part of Scrum rituals - organize and facilitate feature/epic estimation, sprint planning and delivery showcases,

• Coach on maintain JIRA Hygiene, and prioritise and assign tasks to team member;

• Promote Agile way of working amongst team members;

• As a part of the role, have the ability to build productive team culture and dynamics

• As a part of the role, coach teams for performance and build a “high performance” culture

• Working with the Value Stream Lead ensure team is working at capacity;

• Work as a part of a team, driving a strong culture of good cross team communication and ways of working

• Have an ability to facilitate alternative solution approaches using a consultative style and obtain agreed consensus across a broad stakeholder group

• Proven experience in building and managing communities of Practice

• Foster adoption of proven best practice in Agile from Industry

• Work with teams to set up delivery measures, baseline them and drive to continuous improvement

• Have the ability to influence and change if required existing delivery practices to allow efficient business value delivery

• Clear obstacles and impediments blocking the team and protect the team from external interruptions and distractions;

• Demonstrate deep experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies

• Track record in delivery by leading through engagement, influencing stakeholders, motivating others and foster synergy

• Have strong communication skills

• Successfully implement program/value stream delivery

• Be able to establish delivery measures/metrics  

Let's talk about your capability and experience: 

• Leadership - accountability, critical thinking, empowerment of squad;
• Program Management
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal skill and ability to influence;
• Has worked with senior client manages
• Sound Big Data / data lake - technical and analytical background;
• Experience within banking domain would be advantageous;
• Experience in solutions for data platforms/cloud native solutions would be advantageous;
• The following qualifications would be advantageous:
• Project Management Certification
• Agile/SCRUM Certification
• Education level - Degree in Computer Science or related field;
• 10 years of project/program management experience
• Have managed in a complex team/client environment
• Managed Big Data/Analytics programs would be advantageous;
• Candidate must have relevant VISAs, Australian PR or Australian Citizenship;
• Understanding of Financial Services Industry could be advantageous. 

Let's talk about what's in it for you! 

We believe technology is about more than business transformation - it's also about building a more sustainable, inclusive future. This starts with our people, working with you to get the future you want. We invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work, contributing to our inclusive culture and a safe place for our people to be themselves and truly belong. Through championing our staff-led community groups, we are committed to being active allies for everyone. We also aim to build an environment where you can thrive at work and at home. We champion remote working - even though you'll want to check out our beautiful offices - and are in the process of making ‘truly flexible' working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. In addition, we strive to ensure your growth and learning experience is unique with access to leading learning platforms, external certifications and opportunities to grow and learn the way you want. Finally, we offer opportunities to use your skills to help society address the impact of the digital and automation revolution, and we're ruthlessly focused on sustainability for our clients and our business - committing to becoming a net zero business by 2030. 

We work to recruit and retain a talented and diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, intersex status or age. 

Capgemini Australia has developed and manages, process orientated Management Systems compliant to the requirements of ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO14001. We are committed to delivering secure solutions and services through state-of-the-art processes and continual improvement frameworks in line with industry best practices as well as contractual, statutory and regulatory requirements. 

#GetTheFutureYouWant - Come join us, bring your whole self to work, create new possibilities for you, your customers and your community and help us to be Architects of Positive Futures. 

Please note unsolicited resumes from employment agencies or other third parties will not be considered.

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