Scrum Master
Dar es Salaam
Vodacom Tanzania Plc
Description
The Scrum Master is a member of the squad who coaches the squad on Agile principles and practices as well as teaching, facilitating, coaching, mentoring and consulting on Agile techniques and ceremonies. The Scrum Master helps to maximise squad productivity? to a sustainable and predictable velocity. The Scrum Master will also help embed continuous learning with the aim to lead the squad members to self-sufficiency.The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the scrum team. They help those outside the scrum team understand Agile ways of working and which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which are less, facilitating everyone to improve these interactions to maximize the value created by the scrum team. Typically reports to the Chapter Lead.
- Promotes and supports �Scrum� as defined in the Scrum Guide – by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values;
- Helps develop Agile teams and chosen practices ensuring proper understanding, practice and continuous improvement of scrum events (e.g. daily stand-ups/demos/retrospectives) and other relevant frameworks and tools (e.g. Scrum/Kanban/Design Thinking);
- Supports in the creation and maintenance of an atmosphere of trust within the squad by facilitating feedback, eliminating hindrances and tracking risks;
- Leads the squad and relevant stakeholders in the proper understanding and use of relevant agile artefacts and events, helping them to use metrics and tools to assess their progress (e.g. burn-down chart);
- Supports in the identification of risks, dependencies and impediments, to facilitate the squad and business in finding a solution, collaborating with other teams and stakeholders, and actively escalating when necessary, to ensure resolution;
- Supports the team members and Product Owner in understanding their role and in properly interacting, (e.g. during the creation of user stories, discussion of priorities, and planning Sprint iterations);
- Participates in the performance evaluation of squad members;
- Promotes the principle of continuous improvement through using agile practices such as retrospectives.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field
- A total of at least 1 to 3 years relevant experience
- Experience in designing and delivering complex digital capabilities
- Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale team
- Trello, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred
- Influencing skills
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Agile
- Facilitation skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field
- A total of at least 1 to 3 years relevant experience
- Experience in designing and delivering complex digital capabilities
- Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
- Trello, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred
- Influencing skills
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Agile
- Facilitation skills
Squad: Software Specialist (Developer)
Dar es Salaam
Vodacom Tanzania Plc
WebsiteVodacom Tanzania Plc
Role Purpose
The Back-End Developer creates the logical back-end and core computational logic of a website, software or information system (using broad technologies such as JAVA, C#, Python etc). Creating prototypes and designs and builds modules and solutions in all iterative cycles, to develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome.This role is responsible for performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects and other developers to produce design, and ensuring that technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support.Typically reports to the Chapter Lead.
Key Responsibilities
- Designs and develops code, writes and executes unit and integration tests, and supports testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests;
- Designs and develops micro-services in Digital Agility Layer supporting specific commercial requirements and customer journeys;
- Builds performance driven websites/user interfaces with an understanding of network traffic, HTTP requests and other performance focused enhancements
- Tests and deploys developed micro-services to relevant environments using available CI/CD tools;
- Understands / uses RESTful APIs and JSON;
- Coordinates with relevant stakeholders inside and outside the squad to clarify commercial requirements and ensure the correct high-quality outcome;
- Estimates user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog;
- Develops and executes unit and integration tests and supports testing against user and technical story acceptance tests;
- Suggests improvements to user stories and design;
- Manages technical debt as part of daily activities;
- Maintains coding standards;
- Troubleshoots, maintains and optimizes released micro-services based on defined allocation of ownership.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
- 2 -3 years relevant experience of which a minimum of one year is in programming and/or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
- Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD
- Experience working with multiple programming and markup languages, such as
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, XML, JSON, and Python, and paradigms such as object-oriented-, even-driven-, procedural-, functional-, and declarative programming
- MicroServices and APIs_FRHR
- Data Analytics and Insights
- AgileAgile
- Coding
- Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
- Architecture and Design
- Software Engineering
- Service and Solution Design and Development
- DevOpsDevOps
- Cloud_FRHR
- Testing and EvaluationTesting and Evaluation
Specialist: IP Network & VAS Networks
Dar es Salaam
Vodacom Tanzania Plc
Role Purpose
- Maintain and support of IP/MPLS network operational activities
- Controlling, managing and acting as second level support for data and internet customers
- Ensure MPESA is supported and well protected on the network layer
- Maintain operational excellence and efficiency in the network operation processes
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
- Operational management of IP/ MPLS network in order to achieve end-to-end network KPI targets to ensure preventive, reactive and corrective maintenance is done as required, regular updates are performed as per vendor recommendations and emphasis on network security is adhered
- Ensure smooth integration, management and support of customers, 3rd parties and partners but adhering to processes, procedure and SLAs to ensure EBU, CBU, DIGITAL and other business units are given the necessary supports in order to achieve Vodacom goals
- Service Level Agreement management to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in delivering network availability and KPI’s. Work closely and collaborate with other departments in issues involving IP Network services in order to meet overall company goals
- Plan, manage and control internet traffic flow by ensuring the optimal path is preferred at all time; manage IPv4 and IPv6 advertisement; ensure international links are monitor to ensure upgrade plans are communicated in advance
- Ensure that changes to the customer profiles, customer flows and their access to the services like M-PESA, USSD, SMSC, Charging etc follows the right approval channels and that the implement is done and documented within SLA .
Core competencies, knowledge and experience
- Business acumen & awareness
- Problem Analysis and fast resolution skills
- Effective communication skills – oral and written
- IP Networks Design and Troubleshooting Skills
- Teamwork and stakeholder management skills
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
- At least 4 years’ experience in Telecommunications Operations
- University Degree in Telecommunications/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent
- Experience of working with multiple suppliers/vendors/partners i.e. CISCO, Juniper, Huawei etc
- Knowledge of mobile telecommunications network architectures/ technologies
- Experience in IP Services operation
- Certifications in IP related fields particularly CCNA/CCNP, JNCA, CCNSP/CCNSE
- Certification in Network Security field, SNRS, SNPA, CISSP
- Must be able and willing to work outside normal working hours when required to do so
- Willing to travel extensively and sometimes at short notice
