Associate Scrum Master

JR United Kingdom; Bedford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology services is seeking a Scrum Master to join their Agile team. This role involves facilitating Scrum events, coaching teams on Agile practices, and ensuring teams deliver customer value while managing risks and dependencies. Ideal candidates will have strong emotional intelligence and proven teamwork skills, along with experience leading Agile teams.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years as a Scrum Master.
• Understanding of Agile practices.
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities

• Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
• Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups and Iteration Reviews.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.

Skills

Team First mindset

Emotional intelligence

Excellent communication

Collaboration skills

Constructive debate facilitation

Job description

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The Role: In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
• Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance from Scaled Agile practices and values.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Guide the Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
• Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams.
• Facilitate Scrum events including, Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate progress transparency.
• Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to increase the effectiveness of Scaled Agile.

What we’re looking for:

• A person with ‘Team First’ mindset with an ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization
• Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Ability to gauge how the team is doing and to drive the necessary actions to improve
• Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, and clear communicator, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations
• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively
• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios
• Understand other engineering processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/Enterprise

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master. Exp range – 3-4 years
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks