Careers at Equity Bank Kenya

Description

The Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. Should help everyone understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization.

The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. They do this by enabling the Scrum Team to improve its practices, within the Scrum framework making them true leaders who serve the Scrum Team and the larger organization.

Responsibilities

The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including:

• Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality;
• Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done;
• Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress; and,
• Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.

The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:

• Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management;
• Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
• Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment; and,
• Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:

• Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
• Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization;
• Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work; and,
• Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in a scrum master role 
• Scrum master certification is mandatory.
• Familiarity with software development
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Kanban, SaFe, LeSS etc.)

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Job Purpose

• Supporting Group CISO in providing business analysis, project & program implementation in the pursuit and delivery of cyber security projects and initiatives across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda & DRC, to achieve target maturity.
• Manage and oversee key projects and initiatives, ensuring effective planning, coordination, and resource utilization to meet objectives and milestones.
• Supervise the Program Management Function, ensuring projects are delivered end-to-end, managing inter-dependencies, and holding stakeholders accountable.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery aligned with business objectives.
• Monitor and report progress, ensuring stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (security engineers, IT, DevOps and business units to ensure alignment.
• Manage timelines, milestones, and deliverables while mitigating risks and dependencies.
• Track deployment progress, ensuring security controls are implemented as designed.

Cyber Security Strategy analysis, Reporting & Prioritization

• Create and maintain a framework and strategy for managing the delivery of the Key projects and initiatives.
• Lead planning and management of domain initiatives and activities.
• Prepare reports and dashboard on cybersecurity strategy, program status and postures.
• Analyze cybersecurity maturity assessment reports and track strategic initiatives that will achieve target maturity.
• Collaborate with the project team and extended enterprise stakeholders to align cyber security initiatives with business objectives.
• Translate security initiatives, policies and frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) into actionable tasks and programs.
• Align security initiatives with business goals (e.g., cloud migration, Zero Trust adoption).
• Monitor regulatory compliance and ensure projects meet requirements

Program Planning and Management

• Manage program and project teams for optimal return-on-investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives.
• Ensure Project objectives align with strategic objectives and anticipated value creation are reflected in the scope.
• Align Key Projects with overall Portfolio.
• Ensure Project Governance and Project Management standards are compiled to by all projects.
• Manage Program level Risks, Issues and Escalations and ensure mitigations are in place and action.
• Ensure effective Stakeholder engagement and the establishment of an effective communication and reporting plan, for each project is in place.
• Ensure Key Project roadmaps, project plans and milestones are updated, agreed and measured
• Ensure the delivery of the Key Projects are within agreed quality, time and when needed according to cost.
• Ensure strategic objectives of each Key project are measurable and met by tracking major milestones and status metrics of all projects within the portfolio.
• Measure Key Project delivery performance and initiate proactive corrective actions as required to ensure delivery is within agreed targets.
• Program scheduling of projects and initiatives - Manage delivery schedules for projects to ensure timeous implementation and compliance with requirements

Planning

• Set objectives, assign tasks, and agree to timetables for achieving intermediate and overall goals.
• Set review dates to ensure that projects remain on target.
• Manage the portfolio roadmaps and portfolio plans are updated, agreed, measured and communicated as agreed with stakeholders

Resource Management

• Establish priorities within the overall program and ensure project teams are adequately resourced by aptly allocating people and technical resources to individual teams in line with those priorities.
• Minimize waste and reduce costs by identifying tasks that are common to several projects and ensures that teams do not duplicate work.
• Identify necessary skills available within the project teams and arrange any necessary training to improve performance.
• Effective management of project and business teams from diverse areas of specialization.

Risk Management

• Work with stakeholders to identify risks, dependencies and opportunities across multiple projects.
• Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders.
• To help project teams with difficult problems by contacting specialists within the organization to obtain information or request support.
• Compile and communicate reports as agreed with stakeholders.

Project Execution

• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans, schedules, and budgets aligned with strategic objectives.
• Oversee program progress, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, budget, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with implementation partners/vendors to achieve program deliverables.
• Document tangible and intangible benefits of projects.
• Define and track project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Maintain and update benefit registers.
• Monitor and communicate benefit realization post-project implementation.

Business Analysis & Technical Specifications

• Oversee requirements management processes including requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and ongoing scope management.
• Define, translate, and document business requirements of critical systems into technical specifications for robust ICT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborate with IT, technology projects and cybersecurity teams to ensure new solutions are secure and comply with national security and privacy policies
• Manage and drive the approval of memo’s, business cases, checklists etc.

Quality Assurance & Test Management

• Reviews test plans, monitors the testing process, serves as a liaison with Quality Assurance.

Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS

• Demonstrates the following leadership skills:
• Project Management Analysis (Agile/Waterfall, JIRA, Asana)
• Security Frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO 27001)
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Cloud Security (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Stakeholder Communication

Qualifications

• University degree required.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with or managing technology solutions, preferably in the technology/cybersecurity management function
• Implementation expertise with any enterprise or cloud-based technology/cybersecurity management function
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a large, multinational organization
• Experience working on projects using Agile methodology a plus, but not required
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and adaptive to change
• Flexibility in working hours in order to work with diverse stakeholders
• Experience working with on prem and virtual project teams
• Proactive approach, ability to complete assigned project tasks with minimal guidance and supervision
• High level of quality/accuracy in work
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills required. Must be able to easily grasp and communicate complex ideas (technology)
• Experience with Microsoft tools - Word, Outlook, Excel, Project, Visio and PowerPoint