Description
Job Purpose:
- Management of Sprints in accordance with Scrum Framework
- Support of backlog creation and grooming
- Running of daily Stand-Ups
- Hold Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Demonstration and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Obtaining buy-in and commitment from Sprint Team against the Sprint Plan
- Planning of Sprints with the Sprint Team prior to the start of the Sprint in order to declare achievable Sprint goals
- Drive success by understanding the priorities from the Product Owner and senior stakeholders
- Maintaining and reporting of Sprint Burn downs and timely reporting of deviations from plan, providing suggestions for any re-planning required based upon the priorities within the Sprint Backlog
- Reporting Sprint progress and status
- Support the team in improving estimation techniques and breaking down of work
- Communication of estimates for planned work to the Engineering Manager
Key Responsibility Areas
- Enable the team to achieve the Sprint goal by removing blockers and facilitating best practice to support the team
- Take an active role in maturing the teams approach to Agile and DevOps practices
- Support wider Communities of Practice for Scrum Masters and Agile ways of working
- Sharing knowledge across multiple Scrum Teams
- Help define metrics to highlight success
- Willing to define, document and iterate our agile processes by enhancing our technical practices
Essential Skills for the role:
- Experience of running Scrum for software/infrastructure teams
- Comfortable using Atlassian suite of products - JIRA and Confluence
- Fosters teamwork and collaboration
- Be a good facilitator to obtain buy in and shield the team
- Technical systems engineering background, ideally hands on with modern software delivery toolchains and understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery and cloud native technologies
- Agile experience and willingness to coach and champion agile ways of working
- Attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Planning and organisation
- Self-motivated and organised individual
Your skills, experience and qualifications:
- Previous experience performing a similar role for a min of 3 years
- Scrum Master certification (desirable)
- Agile certification
- JIRA & Confluence experience
- Understanding of DevOps
- SC Cleared or willing to obtain
AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.