Description
One of our insurance clients based in Dublin is looking to on board a scrum master with some experience.
Essential Duties:
- Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
- Guiding the team on self-organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to maintaining the product backlog.
Required Skills/Experience:
- First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
- 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
Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):
- Experience within the Scrum Master role for at least two years
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD,
- Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, etc.
- Previous experience as a team lead
Please apply only if you have the correct skills and are eligible to work in the stated location.