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Agile Master (Contract) - Gauteng / Hybrid - ISB7102033

Agile Master (Contract) - Gauteng / Hybrid - ISB7102033

iSanqa ResourcingWorkFromHome, Gauteng, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Overview

Agile transformation leader with financial acumen ready to drive team excellence

Guide cross-functional teams through complex Agile implementations while leveraging your accounting / financial background to optimize demand planning and project delivery.

Lead servant leadership initiatives and facilitate high-performing teams in a dynamic global IT environment.

Senior Agile Master leadership role

Financial / Accounting background preferred

Demand & forecast planning expertise

Global team collaboration opportunities

Contract : Until December 2028

Experience : 5-8 Years in Agile Principles

Commencement : 01 September 2025

Location : Midrand / Menlyn / Rosslyn / Home Office rotation

Role & Responsibilities

  • The Agile Master (Senior) is responsible for guiding teams and organizations on how to use Agile / Scrum practices effectively while adding value to projects and customers.
  • This role involves facilitating Agile ceremonies, coaching teams to higher levels of maturity, and leveraging financial / accounting expertise to optimize demand planning and project delivery within the Code Beamer environment.
  • Agile Guidance and Value Creation : Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile / Scrum practices and add value to projects and customers. Align within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding
  • Cross-Site Collaboration : Collaborate with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites / locations ensuring seamless communication and coordination
  • Workshop and Meeting Facilitation : Structure workshops and meetings to lead and facilitate the team''s agile way of working, including facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
  • Team Self-Organization Coaching : Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization in Agile
  • Agile Maturity Assessment : Assess Agile maturity and coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace
  • Impediment Removal : Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel
  • Safe Environment Creation : Build a trusting environment where problems can be raised without blame, emphasizing problem solving
  • Communication and Transparency : Improve internal and external communication and show team status / performance
  • Product Owner Support : Support the business product owner with backlog grooming processes
  • Data quality : Identify and facilitate fixing data quality issues to arrive at more mature stories
  • Servant Leadership : Provide support to the team using servant leadership and lead by example
  • Project Coordination : Assist with project and team coordination tasks when needed

Qualifications & Experience

Minimum mandatory qualifications :

  • Scrum Master Certification
  • Experience as a Team Lead

    • Minimum mandatory experience :

  • 5-8 Years Experience in Agile Principles
  • Proven experience in managing technical teams using the AGILE methodology

    • Advantageous experience :

  • Proven track record of successful projects delivered
  • Proven experience in senior / leadership roles fulfilled in IT / engineering teams
  • Project Management qualification (advantageous)

    • Essential Skills Requirements

  • 5-8 Years Experience in Agile Principles
  • Ability to manage a technical team using the AGILE methodology
  • Preferred candidate with Accounting or Financial background
  • Understanding of demand & forecast planning
  • Strong Project Management Skills
  • Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
  • Willingness to learn and grow with the team
  • Knowledge of documented patterns and techniques for filling gaps left in Scrum (e.g., Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, bug handling)
  • Additional responsibilities in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

    • Soft Skills

  • Ability to work interdependently and to submit deliverables on time with quality
  • Good interpersonal and organizational skills; effective communication on technical and non-technical levels
  • High ethical standards
  • Flexibility to take up different tasks in the product
  • Willingness to coach and train colleagues and users when required
  • Must be able and willing to travel internationally if required

    • Advantageous Skills Requirements

  • Project Management qualification (advantageous)
  • Strong Understanding of Financial or Accounting Background
  • Understanding of forecast & demand planning
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills
  • Ownership and accountability
  • Self-driven and motivated
  • Solution and result oriented
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects and tasks
  • Stress tolerant
  • Negotiation skills and customer focus
  • Supervision : Independent worker with escalation as needed
  • Problem solving : Improve products or systems with conceptual changes
  • Communication : Influence and effective stakeholder engagement, including international customers
  • Delivery : Define new products, processes, and standards aligned to strategy; provide guidance to lower-level employees
  • Knowledge : Functional mastery of a professional discipline

    • Impact & Environment

  • Role involves guiding teams in Agile / Scrum practices and adding value to projects and customers
  • Cross-site collaboration with Product Owners and colleagues across locations
  • Facilitate workshops, coaching, and ensuring safe, transparent communication

    • Other Details

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    Candidates MUST be based in Gauteng or WILLING TO RELOCATE!

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    iSanqa is a Level 2 BEE recruitment partner dedicated to continuous improvement in delivering service. Specializing in placements for permanent staff, temporary resources, and contract management and billing facilitation. iSanqa Resourcing has extensive experience and a commitment to excellence.

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