Scrum Master

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Scrum Master to join their Solution Delivery team. In this role, you will empower agile squads by coaching and facilitating their practices, ensuring they reach their highest potential. You will be instrumental in creating a safe and trusting environment, guiding the team through challenges, and supporting the Product Owner in maintaining a well-groomed product backlog. If you thrive in dynamic settings and are driven to deliver outstanding results, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company that values transparency, ownership, and collaboration, and help shape the future of investment platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience in agile methodologies and frameworks is essential.
• Previous team leadership experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate agile ceremonies and coach the team on Scrum practices.
• Remove impediments and support the team in achieving their goals.

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Scrum Practices

Team Leadership

Jira

Confluence

Interpersonal Skills

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

It’s simple … we want to help people confidently take control of their financial future, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength and be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight talking and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate and encouraged to fight for what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

We are recruiting for a Scrum Master to join the Solution Delivery team, and help coach and facilitate our agile squads as we continue to drive agile practises within interactive investor. In this role you will help the team perform at their highest-level vs agreed goals. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating agile ceremonies, and working with the product owner to ensure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver business benefit.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation.
• Coaching the team to higher levels of agile and scrum maturity and helping them define their ways of working.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work and facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the obstacles.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Building great relationships with the product owner and other stakeholders.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Arranging and facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, reviews, demos, planning meetings, and retrospectives in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Acting as a safeguard for the team.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks
• Previous experience as a team lead
• Previous experience of collaborating with or within an agile/scrum team
• Previous experience of delivering change in an IT function
• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures
• Jira/Confluence experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome

• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better

• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes

• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges

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