Associate Scrum Master

JR United Kingdom; Bolton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Associate Scrum Master in Bolton to lead Agile teams and enhance their performance. The successful candidate will act as a servant leader, support team self-organization, and facilitate Scrum events while ensuring clear communication and collaboration. This role is ideal for a skilled communicator with emotional intelligence and 3-4 years of experience in Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years experience leading teams as a Scrum Master.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Emotional Intelligence

Conflict Resolution

Coaching

Job description

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Associate Scrum Master, Bolton, Greater Manchester

Client:

S&P Global

Location:

Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

Job Description:

The Role: In this role, you will work 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 for 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 a ‘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. Experience 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.