Scrum Master (Agile, Azure DevOps, Digital)

TXP; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing IT consultancy is seeking a highly accomplished Scrum Master for a permanent role. This position will involve working closely with leading financial services clients during a significant transformation program. Candidates should have extensive experience in Agile methodologies and the Scrum framework. Additional benefits include 25 days of annual leave, private medical insurance, and a matched pension scheme. This is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact in a supportive environment.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Paid birthday leave

4% matched employer pension

Private medical insurance

Access to a Financial Advisor

Qualifications

• Experience working in various Agile development environments.
• Establishing methodologies and explaining their use.
• Coaching Agile Teams to be innovative and productive.

Responsibilities

• Ensure team understands Agile practices and Scrum framework.
• Help stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and product development.
• Act as process owner and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

Skills

Agile development methodologies

Scrum

Kanban

Lean

SAFe

Coaching Agile Teams

Interpersonal skills

Microsoft stack technologies

Git

CI/CD automation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Hybrid Working (Warwickshire/Birmingham)

Permanent - Full-time Hours

Competitive Salary Plus Great Benefits - Please enquire

TXP is a fast-growing IT consultancy, delivering Cloud-based application development, digital transformation, and technical advisory services across public and private sectors. We manage the full delivery life cycle, from business requirements to development, QA, release, and support.

We're looking for a highly accomplished, Midlands based Scrum Master on a Full time permanent basis to work with TXP and our leading financial services client - your role will align to our client's biggest ever transformation program, so this really is a fantastic time to join and make a real impact!

The successful candidate will make sure the team understands Agile practices, the Scrum framework and its values, and how to deliver working software to satisfy customers. You'll encourage your team to become self-organised to provide end user value and build stakeholder support, whilst reducing overhead, costs, and create a high level of Agile maturity.

You will help employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development, and act as the process owner for the team and maintaining the relationship with the project's key stakeholders.

To qualify for this exciting role, your CV will demonstrate the following experience -

• Experience working in a range of Agile development environments, establishing methodologies and able to explain when to use their various practices: Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe
• Working in an advisory role as part of a team
• Influencing and guiding team members to improve flow of work
• Coaching Agile Teams to be empowered, innovative, and productive
• Evidencing problems and raising these for broader consideration across Practice Leads and Senior Management
• Familiar with software development technologies (particularly the Microsoft stack): Azure DevOps as a work management system
• Git, particularly branching, pull requests, and good practices
• Awareness of mechanisms to automate: CI/CD, workflows
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to interact effectively with stakeholders from business and domain specialists to deep technologists

Benefits -

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• An additional day of paid leave for your birthday (or Christmas eve)
• 4% Matched employer contributed pension (salary sacrifice)
• Life assurance (3x)
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Private medical insurance through our partner Aviva
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to an independent Financial Advisor
• 2 x social value days per year to give back to local communities

We are TXP. We help businesses and organisations move forward, at pace and at scale. We believe in the transformative power of combining technology and people. By providing consulting expertise, development services and resourcing, we work closely with organisations to solve their most complex business problems.

Our work transforms organisations - and we take that responsibility seriously. We focus on success, pursue excellence and take ownership of everything we do. Achieving that level of performance requires an inclusive and supportive working environment. We believe in the power of technology and people, and we help everyone here to succeed. At TXP, you can multiply your potential.

If you have proven experience in the above areas and would like to be considered - please submit your application ASAP to Jackie Dean at TXP.

TXP takes great pride in representing socially responsible clients who not only prioritise diversity and inclusion but also actively combat social inequality. Together, we have the power to make a profound impact on fostering a more equitable and inclusive society. By working with us, you become part of a movement dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce.