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Scrum Master (12 months contract)

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This job is for a Scrum Master in a 12-month contract. You'll lead Agile practices, manage product backlog, and coach the team in Agile principles. You might like this job because it offers opportunities for growth within the company and challenges the status quo.

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Kuala Lumpur, MY, Kuala Lumpur

Job Description

Summary:
Responsible for leading Agile practices within the team, ensuring efficient delivery by facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing obstacles, and fostering collaboration. This role supports the Product Owner in managing the product backlog and coaching the team in Agile principles.
 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Implement agile methodology, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
  • Determining, monitoring and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
  • Scheduling and facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, other meetings, and decision-making processes.
  • Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.

  • Planning of business workshops, organizing demos and product/system testing.

  • Manage dependencies between vendor deliverables and scrum team delivery plans.

  • Coach the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicate effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team

  • Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.

  • Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.

  • Preparing and presenting regular status reports to stakeholders.

  • Work with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.

  • Work with vendors, partners and internal delivery teams in ensuring pragmatic delivery

 

 

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Prior experience as a scrum master delivering IT projects.
  • Experience as a project manager.
  • Experience in financial services / insurance highly regarded.
  • Prior experience in web technologies and APIs highly regarded.
  • Courses and certifications in Project Management and/or scrum methodology.
  • Strong knowledge of using JIRA for managing projects
  • Knowledge of DevOps tools and methodologies
  • JIRA configuration skills
  • Estimation methodologies using Scrum
  • Microsoft Excel & powerpoint skills
  • Excellent communication & documentation skills.
  • Ability to lead by influence

 

You are the heart & soul of Zurich! 
 

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right? 

We highly value the experience and know-how of our employees and offer a wide range of opportunities across business areas to encourage you to apply for new opportunities within Zurich when you are ready for your next career step. 

Let’s continue to grow together!

 

  • Location(s):  MY - Kuala Lumpur 
  • Schedule: Full Time
  • Recruiter name: Eilma Fatehah Sabri

 


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Company Benefits

Mental health and wellbeing resources

We host accessible webinars for employees on topics like healthy eating, mindfulness, resilience, parenting, finances, work relationships, and more.

Sports & Recreational Club

We organize regular sports events like badminton and bowling tournaments, fostering teamwork and spirit through our Sports Club.

Flexible work hours:

We offer flexible working hours to help our employees manage their work and personal commitments.

Hybrid working arrangement

We offer hybrid work arrangements, allowing employees to work from the office or remotely, promoting flexibility, adaptability, and collaboration.


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Company Profile

Zurich Services Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.-logo-image

Zurich Services Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets.

With about 60,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 210 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872.

ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE

We are Zurich, one global company, with one mission, one ambition, one set of shared values and a clear commitment to our stakeholders: our customers, our people, our shareholders, and the communities in which we live and work.

Source: Zurich