Mobile commerce company Mondia is looking for Agile Coach (Dubai).
About the role:
- The company is looking for an experienced Scrum Master to oversee and guide scrum teams. The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. You should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding scrum master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities:
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline.
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
- Help teams implement changes effectively.
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.
- Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
- Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
Requirements:
- The ideal candidate has exceptionally high ownership, excellent critical thinking skills and the ability to work with agility in a fast-paced environment. They would also be insanely focused on demonstrating excellence in service delivery and problem-solving; breaking down complex information into understandable and actionable items.
Other qualifications include:
- 5+ years as Scrum master in complex Enterprise projects & programs.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
- Leadership and management experience.
- Excellent people and project management skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience driving projects in Microservices, Java, SQL/NoSQL, Mobile, DevOps.
- Lean thinking mindset, comfortable with Agile planning and estimation rituals.
- Flexible and able to thrive in a fast paced, innovative young company.
- Fluent English.
- German is a plus.
- Strong & Effective communication skills.
- Team player.
- Able to work under stress.
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.
- Outstanding organizational skills.
- Degree in Computer Science.
- Scrum master certification is a plus.
- Jira/Confluence/Slack.