Scrum Master

TN United Kingdom; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Scrum Master to transform their IT Delivery Team in Milton Keynes. This pivotal role involves leading the adoption of agile methodologies, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will guide teams in Agile best practices, facilitate communication, and work closely with stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of deliverables. If you are passionate about Agile principles and have a proven track record in coaching teams to success, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Scrum Master in agile software delivery.
• Experience in customer-facing technology delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead scrum teams, ensuring adherence to Scrum values.
• Facilitate sprints, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.

Skills

Agile Scrum Methodologies

Communication Skills

Conflict Resolution

Team Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft SQL

Azure

Job description

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our IT Delivery Team in Milton Keynes. You will play a key role in leading a cultural shift towards adopting agile scrum methodologies across our software engineering delivery teams. You will be responsible for guiding the team in Agile best practices, helping to remove impediments, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement, continuous flow of value, and consistent quality.

Key responsibilities:

1. Leading assigned scrum teams, ensuring the team operates with Scrum values, empowering them to become high performing to increase the productivity, transparency, frequency and quality of delivery.
2. Act as the process owner for the team, maintaining the relationship with key stakeholders.
3. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
4. Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution within the team.
5. Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups.
6. Coach team members in Agile Scrum frameworks.
7. Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
8. Work with external 3rd party vendors and be a point of contact.
9. Work with product owners to manage backlogs and new requests.
10. Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
11. Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint, driving continuous improvement through the use of data.

Experience & skills required:

1. 3+ years’ experience in a Scrum Master role delivering change in agile software engineering environments.
2. Experience in delivering technology in customer facing industries.
3. Experience of delivering change across Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL, and cloud Azure.
4. Ability to remove barriers and keep the team on track, share experiences and encourage collaboration.
5. Demonstrable experience and working knowledge of a wide variety of Agile / Scrum tools and frameworks, inclusive of Jira and Confluence.
6. Must be able to show passion and enthusiasm for Agile Principles and motivating teams.
7. Must be able to lead, coach, and mentor software development teams on agile scrum delivery methodology.
8. Excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence key stakeholders up to a senior level.

Connells Group, one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,250 branches, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of services including new homes, mortgage services, surveying, conveyancing and more!

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.