Scrum Master at Teesas Educational Limited Full Time

Teesas Educational Limited is currently seeking for application from qualified applicants to fill the vacant position of Scrum Master . interested and qualified applicants can apply via the details below

Teesas Education Limited is a subsidiary of Imose Technologies Limited. Teesas provides high quality video tutorials from Africa’s best teachers that explain foundational concepts with delivery in English and major local languages to deepen understanding. Your child will also gain rapid knowledge and mastery of local languages (such as Ibo, Hausa, Yoruba and more) through our interactive personalised classes delivered by highly experienced native language tutors.

Teesas Education App is designed to provide a strong foundation for entrance exams into top Secondary schools with exam preparation content tailored for superior performance. Our students will have access to live online video classes with tutors delivering in-depth explanation of core concepts. Our highly rated tutors are carefully selected through a rigourous process and are certified by National learning councils. The videos are delivered in a mix of gamified and interactive animated tutorials to ensure high engagement and keep your child excited about learning foundational concepts.

We seek to engage creative, artistic and innovative individuals for the position below:

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• As a Scrum Master Manager, you’ll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team.
• Our Ideal candidate must be open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people.
• You must be proactive in solving problems to help team(s) succeed.
• You will be required to drive Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement, you will embrace agility as a practice.
• As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals as well as possess flexible approach that enables team to rapidly respond to changes.

Key Responsibilities
Run all scrum ceremonies, including:

• Daily stand-ups in which you will track progress on commitments and seek impediments to remove.
• Weekly backlog grooming sessions with product owner and tech lead in which you will facilitate the improvement and prioritization of stories and other Jira tasks.
• Sprint reviews in which you will ensure presentation and evaluation of completed stories and tasks and account story points for velocity calculation, future sprint commitment, and simple forecasting.
• Retrospectives in which you will facilitate team discussion on how to improve ways of working.
• Sprint planning in which you will drive the construction of the sprint backlog, loading the sprint in accordance with sprint capacity and team velocity (sprint volume) and seeking team commitment
• Communicate and coordinate with other teams on dependencies to and from the DevOps Tool-chain team.
• Help your team with less technical and more practical matters.
• Facilitate resolution of issues blocking team progress and escalate issues when necessary.

Qualification and Skills

• Scrum Master Certification.
• Proficiency with Jira and Clickup.
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least Four years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Knowledge and application 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 other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing and Agile Games.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Compensation
Salary is globally competitive.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send updated their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.