Technical Scrum Master

Tata Technologies; Gaydon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company in the UK is seeking a Technical Scrum Master to lead cross-functional teams in delivering impactful technical solutions. The ideal candidate will possess extensive Agile experience, excellent communication skills, and a passion for Scrum practices. Responsibilities include managing scrum ceremonies, facilitating team collaboration, and removing impediments to ensure successful project delivery. Join us to innovate and improve business processes with a global leader in engineering.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Technical Scrum Master/Agile PM.
• Must understand SDLC and Technical Delivery Framework.
• Passion for Agile and Scrum concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead scrum teams delivering technical solutions.
• Convert business requirements into actionable technical items.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and manage outcomes.

Skills

Excellent communication

Agile/Scrum frameworks understanding

Servant leadership

Facilitation and conflict resolution

Team leadership

Tools

DevOps tools

Agile techniques

PLM Applications

Job description

At Tata Technologies we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers.

Our Client's Engineering Department is responsible for all aspects of Engineering Toolset selection, implementation, deployment, use and support for the business. Our team is currently engaged in deployment of new enterprise-wide solution for various area of business to implement and realise effective and efficient business process operations covering Requirement Management, Test Management, Process Deployment and its governance.

Currently we are looking for a Technical Scrum Master role for this department which offers an opportunity to lead scrum teams responsible to deliver technical solutions that have direct effect on process, tools, people who operate in an end-to-end business process. It brings working closely with Product Owners, Process Owners, Architects, developers, analysts, testers, SME's and in a cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Technical Scrum Master for x-functional teams including Functional and Technical consultant, Support Analyst, Developers.
• Understand Business Requirements and convert that into Technically actionable items (Epics, Stories, Tasks, sub-tasks, etc.)
• Design, own, and govern delivery logs, change logs, process logs, requirement traceability matrices.
• Manage Stakeholders, govern workflows for change.
• Lead meeting, workshops, scrum sessions, and manage outcomes with clear traceable links to delivery.
• Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Facilitating ceremonies for the team like Spring Planning, Retrospective, Reviews, Stand up etc.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
• Mentors, coaches and develops individual team members and the team as a whole.
• Work closely with Area Product owner, Product owner, department head, customer programme management.
• Tracks and communicates the overall progress of the scrum teams delivery and team KPIs (using Burn-downs, burn-ups, Cumulative Flow, Velocity etc.).
• Conduct internal training on Agile practices for existing and new team members.

Experience

• Must have extensive experience of working as a Technical Scrum Master/Agile PM for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Must understand SDLC, Technical Delivery Framework and Challenges, Systems Architecture, Functional and Technical Specifications, Test Strategies and Management.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• Passion and deep understanding of Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Working experience with Agile approaches SAFe® / LeSS® is required.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Awareness of PLM Applications e.g 3D Experience, Teamcenter etc for Automotive Domain.
• Must have working knowledge of DevOps principles and practices - CI/CD/Test Automation /DevOps tools.
• Should have great team leadership, inter-personal communication, and negotiation/influencing skills to guide, mentor and motivate agile teams.
• The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches:, XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

If you are passionate about bringing innovation to the projects you work on and want to join a global company, then this is the place for you.

Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world.

Tata Technologies would like to thank all applicants for their interest, each application will be reviewed against the set criteria for the role. We would like to advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days following the closing date it will mean that unfortunately your application has not been successful. We will however retain your details for any suitable future opportunities.