Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Coach

Forman IT Limited; Worthing; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading governing body is actively recruiting Scrum Masters to enhance their digital delivery center in Worthing. The successful candidate will coach teams in Agile practices, ensure compliance with methodologies, and help overcome obstacles to project delivery. Essential skills include experience in digital project delivery, mentoring, and agile project management. This role is pivotal to achieving the organization's digital transformation objectives, requiring strong negotiation skills and the ability to work with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products.
• Experience working in a similar role.
• Ability to challenge and remove barriers to service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Agile techniques are adhered to by the Scrum team.
• Remove impediments and blockers for the team.
• Coach and mentor teams in Agile best practices.

Skills

Agile project management methods

Coaching and mentoring

Negotiation skills

Job description

Our client a leading Governing body is actively recruiting for several Scrum Masters to join an ever growing digital delivery centre!

Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters are an essential component of my clients multi-disciplinary agile teams. You will ensure Agile techniques are adhered to by the Scrum team, acting as a mentor and coach on best practices to ensure that the team maximises the benefits that the Agile development methodology provides. Your priorities will be set by your team members, under the leadership of their Service/Product Manager, and your role is to help them get things done by removing impediments and blockers. This is one of the most challenging roles in the entire digital team, but our Agile Delivery Managers/Scrum Masters will play a crucial role in the Department becoming digital by default.

• Proven experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products.
• Proven experience using agile project management methods.
• Proven experience working in a similar role
• Proven experience balancing multiple priorities on large-scale, high-visibility projects and employing techniques to deal with ambiguity.
• Proven ability to challenge and remove any unnecessary barriers to service delivery.
• Demonstrable experience in coaching and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams in Agile best practice techniques.
• Highly articulate and credible at a senior level, consistently delivering accurate reporting as to the current state of play with regard to the delivery of your service
• Strong negotiation skills and the proven ability to influence external partners, stakeholders and customers to secure mutually beneficial outcomes.