Group Scrum Master

Futura Design; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon is searching for a Group Scrum Master to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a 12-month contract position initially until 31st March 2026, with the potential for further extensions.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £49.20 per hour.

Responsibilities:

• Guiding and coaching team members in self-management and cross-functionality; emphasizing the importance of communication.
• Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value product increments that meet the 'Definition of Done'.
• Removing obstacles to Scrum Teams' progress (managing obstacle board reviews).
• Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
• Helping Stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work (from tools and processes usage perspective).
• Evolving new ways to bridge between business tools and processes and Agile Ways of Working.
• Ensuring top-down and bottom-up sync between product groups and the vehicle group for any activity.
• Governing effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
• Managing group Product Backlog and ensuring clear and concise Product Backlog items linked to stories/features/capabilities.
• Facilitating Stakeholder collaboration where necessary.
• Preparation of vehicle team QBR memo in conjunction with SPM, Prog Chief, and PGLs.
• The Scrum Master is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Facilitating ART events and processes and assisting the teams in delivering value.
• Communicating with Stakeholders, escalating impediments, helping manage risk, and driving relentless improvement.
• Guiding the team on introspection to continually improve agile ways of working.
• Representing impediments to Programme/Vehicle Teams via Obstacle process (JIRA tickets).
• Supporting escalation in Obstacle Reviews.
• Protecting the Team from outside interference.
• Conscience of Product Owner - Backlog creation and refinement, estimation, roadmap development, and dependency alignment.
• Assisting in driving continuous improvement, transparency, and consistency among the teams.
• Ensuring the group members know how to check that stories exist related to their MBIs and how to check their status/timing.
• Reviewing performance charts every sprint to pinpoint challenges.
• Contributing to the delivery activities for my squad through planning and MBI assessments.
• Promoting and soliciting timely change requests as required.
• Facilitating Retrospective (improve team efficiency), Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Planning/Backlog refinement.
• Ensuring the Group remains focused on meeting objectives.
• Supporting/leading resolution of obstacles and aligning with other squads if necessary.
• Ensuring AGILE Ceremonies are scheduled.
• Helping coordinate showcase and ensuring it is on time.
• Preparing meeting materials for Group Sync meetings to ensure effective information flow to team members.
• Supporting Squad(s) and Group Product Owner to run the BRP and Marketplace sessions effectively, including preparation of presentation materials.

Skills Required:

• Delivery experience: this could have been through purchasing, engineering, programmes, quality, integration, etc., as long as it is part of product/programme delivery through launch.
• For Agile, we are looking for someone with a basic understanding of SAFE & Scrum and who has been a Scrum Master at least once in their career.
• Automotive Product Development and Delivery Experience together with Agile delivery knowledge.

Additional Information:

Hybrid working - likely 2 to 3 days on site at Gaydon, occasional travel to Halewood.