Scrum Master

Roke; Woking; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology company as a Scrum Master in Woking, where you'll work on innovative projects in the National Security sector. Help guide teams to deliver mission-critical solutions by facilitating agile processes, maintaining relationships, and ensuring effective collaboration. This exciting opportunity offers a chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the nation's safety and security.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder engagement and managing agile teams.
• Proven background in a software/product environment.
• Familiarity with the National Security sector.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating scrum meetings such as Daily Standups and Sprint Planning.
• Maintaining Jira board and ensuring backlog items are accurately assigned.
• Reporting on activities every sprint and PI.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Agile Framework

Leading engineering teams

Software / Product background

National Security sector experience

Tools

Jira

Job description

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National Security Business
Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.

Working on leading edge technology solutions including AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOps/SRE, Platform Engineering

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Role:
As a scrum master within Roke, you will get to work on exciting and innovative projects, you will be expected to guide one or more scrum teams made up of infrastructure developers, architects, testers and business analysts. As a Scrum master you will be able to motivate new and mature teams and help them work together to deliver value quickly.

Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.

As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for

• Facilitate the scrum meetings - Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Planning
• Building / Maintaining relationships - To be effective at removing blockers, relationships must be built and maintained with other delivery teams, product, BAE and other client teams across the organisation. Also attend the bi-weekly Scrum Master catch up sessions
• Maintain the active Jira board and backlog items ensuring all attributes are correctly assigned. Additionally ensure that sprint switchover is completed correctly every sprint as this feeds into the reporting.
• Sprint / PI Reporting – Ensure reporting on activities is completed and accurate every sprint and every PI.
• Work with the Agile Coach to ensure that agile methodology is implemented and complied with.
• Prepare Feature Status slide for every sprint review.
• Facilitate PI Planning, ensuring team discussions are relevant, recording on tools is accurate and attending scrum meetings in addition to performing play-back duties.
• Ensuring the team disseminate information to users of the systems.

Required skills

• Stakeholder Engagement – Internal & External Partners
• Agile Framework
• Leading engineering teams – 6 to 12
• Software / Product background
• National Security sector experience.

Built on over a 60 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Where you’ll work

You’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified – you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5 minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

Your time will be spent working on customer sites in the London area

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance.

The Next Step...

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.