Description
One of our insurance clients in Dublin is looking for a Scrum master to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a great client with a Global reach.
Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the post:
- Guide your team and the organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
- Assess the scrum maturity of the team and organisation and coach them to attain higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear
- Facilitate getting the work done without assigning or dictating the work
- Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information
- Support and educate the product owner, especially with grooming and maintaining the product backlog
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and lead by example
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (Alpha/beta/production)
- Actively participate in the Delivery Manager and Scrum Master community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice.
Specialist Skills & Requirements
Essential
- SCRUM master qualification
- Experience playing the scrum master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying SCRUM principles, practices and theory
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
- Experience of closely integrating user needs and feedback within the agile environment.
Desirable
- Experience within a Financial or Insurance domain.
- Knowledge and or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User stories, TDD, Continuous integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated testing
- Experience of working on digital by default service standard compliant government websites