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Scrum Master
Job summary
A leading software company in Brighton is looking for a Scrum Master with at least 2 years of experience in Agile environments. Responsibilities include facilitating sprint planning, coaching teams on Agile practices, and continuously improving processes. Ideal candidates will possess strong knowledge of tools like JIRA and Agile methodologies. This role offers an opportunity to drive team success and streamline processes.
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of technical experience with 2+ years as a Scrum Master.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Lean or Kanban.
- Ability to establish a data-driven culture.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate sprint planning and daily stand-up meetings.
- Track and communicate team commitments and progress.
- Coach team members on Agile practices.
Skills
Education
Tools
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, and retrospectives for multiple teams in stable environments.
- Track and communicate team commitments, velocity and sprint/quarterly progress.
- Collaborate across scrum teams in R&D to help remove team impediments.
- Escalate team impediments that the team are unable to resolve themselves, or with your help.
- Relentlessly driving continuous improvement through:
- Retrospectives, learning, giving feedback, challenging the team, and coaching others to do so as well.
- Continuous learning on agile techniques such as story mapping, CI/CD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automation.
- Highlight team success within and outside the team.
- Plan and facilitate quarterly planning events.
- Present and communicate to product development executives and leadership.
- Coach team members:
- To improve collaboration and self-organization
- On Agile practices and encourage inspection and adaptation
- To ensure backlog is refined (properly defined User Stories)
- Self-organizing, thorough, and efficient
- One or more of the following certifications: CSM, Advanced CSM, SSM, PSM I, PSM II, PMS III, SAFe Certification
- At least 4+ years of technical experience and 2+ years as Scrum Master of combined QA/Dev scrum teams.
- Ability to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to the agile process.
- Ability to manage the dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, software quality and committed deadlines.
- Strong knowledge and certification in Agile methodology and framework such as Lean, Kanban, XP, etc.
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence/SharePoint preferred and JIRA/Azure DevOps/SharePoint admin skills a bonus.
- Fluency with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
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