Given the organic growth of our enterprise, we do have the need to establish a central pool of tools, with a standardized way of using them in development, in order to assure development excellence, a high standard of quality and reuse across our SW assets, compliance to the standard operating procedures applied in development.

Work closely with SW development team, help them with the maintenance of the backlog, host the planning meetings, identify the community of users for each service and keep the communities informed about achievements and future plans regularly, in order to assure that the communication is established, and that the users are informed.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Support the SW Methodology Team with the organization of the Planning Ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Planning, Review & Retro, as well as daily stand-up)
• Maintain the backlog, and ensure that JIRA is always updated by the team in order to reflect the reality of the ongoing operations.
• Identify the key users for our products from the users community and keep them informed regularly about the achievements and future plans of the team.
• Create and maintain users distributions list for our products and services.
• Support the team to remove road-blockers, and be a facilitator for the day-to-day operations in execution, and support the team to respect the timeline.
• Report to management when deadlines can’t be met, or when there are operational issues encountered in the team.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in tech. industry, IT, Communications.
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or facilitator of a SW team.
• General knowledge of a planning and task management tool
• Good skills in MS Office and any project management / task tracking tool (e.g. JIRA, TFS, Polarion or others)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related equivalent
• Experience with agile frameworks - like Scrum or Kanban.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

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