Associate Scrum Master

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

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Associate Scrum Master to join their team in South West London. The ideal candidate will guide Agile teams in delivering customer value through effective practices and foster collaboration across the organization. With responsibilities including coaching and facilitating Scrum events, this role requires strong leadership and communication skills. The position is perfect for an individual with 3-4 years of related experience who can drive continuous improvement in Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of 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.
• Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, and Retrospectives.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Emotional intelligence

Facilitation

Job description

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Client:

S&P Global

Location:

south west london, 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

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Job Description:

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