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Scrum Master
About this role
The Scrum Master role is based in Lagos for ARM Hold Co., supporting ARM Life. The role oversees the sprint, ensures the team works on the right tasks, and translates backlog items into actionable work with the product owner and developers, while maintaining a transparent, outcome‑driven delivery environment and guiding agile ceremonies.
What you would do
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Identify, track, escalate and drive resolution of blockers, dependencies, risks and impediments.
- Promote realistic sprint commitments based on team capacity and dependencies.
- Maintain transparent agile artefacts, logs, dependency registers and delivery dashboards.
- Support release planning and coordination across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, Security and Operations.
- Coach the product owner and development team on self‑organisation and Scrum practices; support organisation‑wide adoption of Scrum.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience, including hands-on experience serving as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery facilitator for software/product teams.
- Practical experience working with cross-functional teams comprising software engineers, QA engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, UX/UI, DevOps and other stakeholders.
- Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps/Boards, Confluence or equivalent platforms.
- Strong knowledge of requirement documentation, Scrum, Kanban, agile planning, backlog refinement, estimation techniques, release planning and continuous improvement.
- Scrum certification or equivalent agile certification.
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