Senior Analyst, Scrum Master at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Analyst, Scrum Master

Job Identification: 68
Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Objective(s)

• Oversees the design, planning and implementation of projects, ensuring that teams have appropriate business and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver products effectively.
• Guides and coaches the Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Responsible for ensuring Agile delivery is understood and the team adheres to Agile theories, practice, and guidelines

Duties & Responsibilities

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques
• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a business /IT related discipline

Experience:

• 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Resource constraint
• Having the right tools and environments

Application Closing Date
1st February, 2021.