Scrum Master at VerifyMe

VerifyMe (VM) is helping Africans grow with trust through identity verification and authentication. With over 80 million identity verifications every year, we are the trusted name when it comes to helping Africans ensure the identity of individuals, employees, or business prospects checks out.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospective meetings.
• Ensure that the dev team is fully functional, productive, and focused on the sprint goal.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to improve the methodologies and best practices.
• Track metrics such as sprint velocity and engineering output and facilitate the creation of burndown charts to monitor team progress and product regular Sprint reports.
• Help the Scrum team achieve higher levels of Scrum maturity.
• Eliminate impediments to the Scrum team’s progress.
• Work closely with Product Managers to groom and prioritize the backlog.
• Protect the dev team from outside disruptions and distractions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with software development processes and procedures.
• Ability to deal with conflicts and resolve them in a constructive manner.
• Experience with agile project management tools like Jira or Asana.
• Minimum 3 years of experience working within the technology sector.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or similar certification preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices.

Skills:

• Agile methodologies
• Conflict resolution
• Team building
• Leadership
• Strong Communication
• Analytical Thinking

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:  [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.