Associate Scrum Master

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

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to guide Agile teams and enhance operational efficiencies. The role involves acting as a servant leader, facilitating Scrum events, and fostering a team-first mindset while driving continuous improvement across multiple product portfolios.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Facilitating Scrum events and guiding Agile teams.
• Educating Agile teams to enhance performance and deliver customer value.
• Managing risks and negotiating dependencies across teams.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Emotional Intelligence

Facilitation

Agile Coaching

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