- Employment Type: full time continuing role as a Delivery Lead/Scrum Master within our Digital Solutions team, UNSW IT
- Exceptional salary package including generous superannuation
- Location: UNSW Kensington Campus (Hybrid Working Opportunities)
About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community, a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
The Delivery Lead/Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring the timely, controlled, and predictable delivery of an Agile squad. This role is key to embedding Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, within the team, ensuring they are understood, practiced, and effectively implemented. The Scrum Master will collaborate closely with other delivery leads/scrum masters, technical leads and other members of the digital solution team. They will coach development teams to self-organise, deliver high-value products, and continuously improve. Additionally, they will be responsible for identifying and removing impediments that may hinder the Squad’s progress. Beyond these responsibilities, the Delivery Lead/Scrum Master will oversee the day-to-day management of the Scrum process, ensuring smooth execution and alignment with Agile principles.
Specific accountabilities for this role include:
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of Digital change, establishing and controlling constraints and scope.
- Helps the teams by coaching the members in scrum adoption, self-management, focus on creating high-value Increments and Influence the removal of impediments.
- Oversee and manage the Scrum teams. Ensuring the team adheres to Scrum theory, practices and rules, and work as the Scrum Master within Agile teams, this could include the use of Kanban over Scrum in certain circumstances.
- Follow the release governance process for Digital Solutions and coordinate with other squads to align work completed in squad to 2 weekly release cycle.
- Communicate with the teams regarding key plans, commitments, and essential changes which include requirements, schedule, scope changes, and QA plans (Scrum of scrums)
- Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog grooming with the Product Owner.
- Ensure that the Teams defined Ways of Working practices and templates are adopted and used consistently.
- Ensure that management processes, tools, techniques and personnel are in place to ensure that the transition of services, service components and packages are planned and compliant.
- Ensure that test and validation and configuration management are applied in all release and deployment activities.
- Manage, communicate and coordinate release preparation and execution activities with the Integration teams and other relevant stakeholders.
- Lead improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the project delivery service and contribute to the identification of areas of improvement.
- Support the Service Owner(s) in delivery by maintaining and developing processes, standards, tools and reporting and their documentation, and proactively review the service provided to endusers and customers.
- Act as a project manager when necessary and take responsibility for managing dependencies between our teams and third parties or between our teams and other scrum teams.
- Ensure hazards and risks are identified and controlled for tasks, projects and activities that pose a health and safety risk within your area of responsibility.
Skills and Experience:
- Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
- At least 5 years of functional experience in leading agile/scrum teams, within Digital, preferably Adobe (AEM) related deliveries, in a large and complex organisation.
- Extensive knowledge of and experience in a range of application development methodologies including ‘agile’, ‘scrum’, ‘Kanban’, ‘devops’, ‘lean’ and ‘rapid’ application development methodologies.
- Comprehensive communication, consultation, influencing and negotiation skills and proven ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Experience in business case preparation, estimation and costing of work.
- Sound experience with Agile SDLC delivery tools i.e., JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively on initiatives with a range of people at different levels within an organisation and partner/vendor resources.
- Excellent time management skills, with a demonstrated ability to respond to changing priorities, manage multiple tasks and meet competing deadlines by using judgement and initiative.
- An understanding of and commitment to UNSW’s aims, objectives and values in action, together with relevant policies and guidelines.
- Knowledge of health & safety (psychosocial and physical) responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.
More Information: visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/
Contact
Jen MacLachlan, email: j.maclachlan@unsw.edu.au
Applications close: Tuesday 25th of February at 11.30pm
Benefits and Culture
- Flexible hybrid working
- Additional 3 days of leave over the Christmas Period
- Access to lifelong learning and career development
- Progressive HR practices
- Discounts and entitlements
UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
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