Scrum Master (2912)

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Scrum Master (2912) at the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL). The position involves providing strategic leadership for application development and modernization, upholding the Scrum Framework, ensuring technical governance and DevOps enablement, and managing/mentoring teams to build capability within the organization's ICT environment. The role focuses on aligning ICT services with SANRAL's strategy, optimizing delivery flow, and fostering a high-performance culture. **What you will do** * **Strategic Leadership & Planning:** * Provide strategic direction for application development and modernization across SANRAL. * Offer critical strategic leadership by enabling alignment, optimising delivery flow, and influencing organisational direction through evidence-based insights, agile ways of working, and continuous improvement. * Align project services with SANRAL’s ICT strategy and organizational objectives. * Support the Product Owner in shaping, refining, and sequencing the product roadmap. * Facilitate adaptive planning through sprint goals, release planning, and empirical forecasting velocity, capacity trends. * Use delivery metrics velocity, throughput, cycle time, impediment patterns to inform planning and improve predictability. * Provide strategic insights to leadership on team performance, risks, and capacity constraints. * Ensure budgeting, planning, forecasting, and business case development for application programmes. * Drive stakeholder engagement and ensure business value delivery through technology. * **Uphold the Scrum Framework:** * Ensure Scrum events Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective are productive and purposeful. * Assist the team understand and apply Scrum values and principles correctly. * Identify and eliminate obstacles that slow down or block the team. * Escalate issues the team cannot resolve themselves. * Assist with backlog refinement and prioritisation processes. * Ensure the team has clarity on goals. * Encourage practices like refactoring, clean code, test automation, CI/CD discipline, and reduction of technical debt. * Facilitate discussions that balance delivery velocity with long-term maintainability. * Promote tracking of technical metrics build health, test coverage, defect trends, cycle time. * Ensure transparency of technical issues so governance bodies can make informed decisions. * Support compliance with architecture review boards, advisory boards, and ICT governance forums. * Ensure sprint outputs align with approved designs, security guidelines, data standards, and solution architecture. * **Technical Governance & DevOps Enablement:** * Ensure adherence to SDLC, Agile, Scrum, Wagile and DevOps methodologies. * Oversee sprint planning and agile delivery in partnership with Project Managers and Scrum Master. * Establish governance frameworks for project and process architecture, security, and compliance. * Ensure adherence to quality gates such as peer review, automated testing, and integration checks. * Identify and mitigate risks associated with application modernisation initiatives. * Ensure projects backlog and work requests comply with SANRAL regulations and industry’s best practices. * **People Management & Capability Development:** * Manage and mentor teams of developers, architects, analysts, and technical specialists. * Create a safe environment where team members collaborate, take ownership, and continuously improve. * Coach the team in self-organisation, problem-solving, and shared accountability. * Build a high-performance culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. * Facilitate learning opportunities such as pair-programming, agile coaching, demos, peer reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions. * Ensure skills development and capacity building aligned to modern technology requirements. * Foster cross-functional collaboration between ICT teams, business units, and external service providers. * Provide individual and team coaching to strengthen agile mindsets, behaviour, and culture. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum Requirements:** * NQF Level 7 Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Informatics, Information Systems, or related field. * A minimum of 5 years’ hand-on practical Scrum or Agile team experience. * Minimum 3 years’ experience in management/leadership level/role. * **Advantageous:** * Business Analysis or Agile or Scrum certification/experience. * **Workplace Competencies & Knowledge:** * Strong understanding of Application Lifecycle Management: ensuring alignment between business needs and application goals, including setting and agreeing requirements early in the lifecycle. * Ability to ensure the application team aligns to ICT system design architecture, ICT solution options, and per the planned technical structures (Enterprise Architecture Alignment). * Knowledge of cloud platforms, microservices, containerization, and integration tools (Modernisation Technologies). * Understanding of ICT policies, audit requirements, and regulatory frameworks (ICT Governance & Compliance). * Familiarity with internal reporting structures, compliance documentation, and environmental audits (Risk & Change Management). * Ability to manage transformation risks and drive organizational application adoption (Contractor Management and Compliance). * Deep understanding of Scrum theory, events, artifacts, values, and empiricism (Understand and Apply the Scrum Framework). * Skilled facilitator who guides discussions, resolves blockers, and strengthens communication (Facilitation and Communication). * Awareness to ensure alignment with engineering practices, quality controls, and organisational governance while managing the team (Technical and Process Governance Awareness). * Ability to interpret, operationalise, and monitor compliance with applicable laws, regulations, standards, and internal policies across the full programme and application lifecycle (Legal and Regulatory Compliance). * Experience in Multi-Team / Scaled Agile Environments. * Strong Stakeholder Management and Influence Skills. * People Change Enablement Capability. * Data-Driven Decision Support. * Application and Solution Testing. * Experience supporting multiple Agile/Scrum teams. * Servant-leadership and conflict-resolution capability. * Understanding of ICT governance. * Understanding of Change management controls. * Understanding of Risk, audit, and compliance frameworks. * Understanding of Architecture and security alignment. **Who should apply** This role is ideal for an experienced Scrum Master with a strong background in ICT and a minimum of 5 years in practical Scrum/Agile teams, including 3 years in a management or leadership capacity. The successful candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and a deep understanding of the Scrum Framework, modernisation technologies, and enterprise-level governance. They should be a skilled facilitator, leader, and coach, capable of driving strategic alignment, fostering high-performing teams, and ensuring compliance within a complex organizational structure like SANRAL, particularly within scaled agile environments. **Deadline** 21 October 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/scrum-master-2912-the-south-african-national-roads-agency-sanral-1 Source: myjobmag

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