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Scrum Lead
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Must Have
Must Have
- 5+ years of delivery experience, of which 4+ as Scrum Master / Squad Lead
- Proven track record leading mixed squads (frontend + backend + data + QA) to release in a government context.
- Demonstrated ability to enforce Definition of Done, code quality, and CI/CD discipline.
- Experience managing cross-squad dependencies on multi-squad programs (2+ squads in parallel).
- Bilingual capability — Arabic and English — for stakeholder workshops, documentation, and executive communication.
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Strong incident, risk, and escalation management instincts.
- Professional certification: PSM II/III, CSP-SM, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.
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Exposure to AI/ML delivery patterns, MLOps, or GenAI use cases.
- Lead a cross-functional delivery squad (BA, full-stack, front-end, QA, data engineer, data modeler) end-to-end across the sprint lifecycle.
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy, well-prioritized backlog and ensure stories are ready before sprint commitment.
- Track sprint progress, burndown, velocity, and squad health; surface impediments early and drive their removal.
- Enforce Definition of Done; ensure all stories meet acceptance criteria, code review, and quality gates before release.
- Coordinate cross-squad dependencies with other Squad Leads, Solution Architect, and Program Manager.
- Manage RAID at squad level: log risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; escalate to Program Management per governance.
- Coach the squad in agile practices, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and self-management.
- Maintain transparent reporting to Program Manager and stakeholders on squad progress, blockers, and forecast.
- Champion engineering standards: code quality, CI/CD discipline, automated testing, peer review.
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Support release planning, deployment coordination, hypercare, and post-release retrospectives.
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Strong working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and scaled agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, or equivalent).
- Hands-on proficiency with agile delivery tooling: Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Miro / Mural.
- Sound technical background — able to challenge engineering decisions, read code at a high level, and interpret architecture artifacts.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating ceremonies, coaching teams, and resolving impediments across business and technical stakeholders.
- Excellent facilitation, written, and verbal communication skills in both Arabic and English.
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