Certified Scrum Master at KPMG

Job Summary

• KPMG Nigeria is currently seeking experienced Scrum Masters to work with domain experts across our Technology business in solving complex business problems for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and client organisation
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance
• Resolving issues that hinder the teams' work
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field preferred with a minimum of second class upper (2.1)
• Certified scrum master (at least First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I SAFe - this is preferred)
• A minimum of five (5) O'Level credits (including English and Mathematics) .
• 3+ years post NYSC experience as a scrum master or in a similar roleAgile values and principles - Lean thinking
• Tooling, Metrics and reporting
• Excellent people and project management skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, and frameworks, such as Serum or Kanban, to deliver solutions
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts - Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.