Scrum Master

ABOUT US

Soum is on a mission to re-imagine recommerce in the MENA region and beyond.
We are doing this by building the most convenient and trustworthy re-commerce
marketplace ever in the region, creating a lasting impact on how the C2C
marketplace works.
Launched in July ‎2021, Soum is one of the fastest growing startups in the
region, with an accelerated growth rate in both the team size and product
reach.

Position Overview:
The Senior Scrum Master will support the team and development engineers with a
well-defined customized software development lifecycle process. This would
include process definition, Agile Scrum-based Software development, and Hybrid
Agile-based module development along with cross-functional communication,
software technical project management, requirements traceability, source code
control, test case management, and defect tracking.
This position also defines the metrics to be used to track process improvement
in Software Development Lifecycle.
This role will work with multiple development engineers to build scalable
software and module development lifecycle processes.

Responsibilities:

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.


• Guiding the team on how to get the most of out our self-organization.


• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.


• Prepare for the frequent agile assessment of the maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.


• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.


• Support in technical architectural and DevOps-related decisions.


• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.


• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.


• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.


• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.


• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.


• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.


• Provide and monitor the different metrics for productivity and performance


• Assure the frequent delivery of working software.

Requirements:

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.


• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.


• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).


• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.


• Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum, which works.


• Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.


• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices.


• Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like Kanban, Crystal, FDD, XP, etc.


• Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate his team.


• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team's needs.


• He should know Agile techniques like User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.


• Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time.


• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.


• Knowledge of tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories, etc.


• Familiar with common development practices, Service-oriented environments, and Agile practices.


• Technical background for ALM cycles, Architecture, and development, is a must