Description
Scrum Master
12 months
£340.40 p/day
We are representing a leading defence organisation in Dorset who are urgently seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join the team on a 12-month contract.
The team are looking to significantly increase the maturity of Agile and DevOps ways of working and this would be a key role to not only support delivery, but to help influence and guide the teams and business in the adoption and understanding of Agile.
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
Required skills/experience
. 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
. 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
. Experience of running Scrum for software/infrastructure teams
. Comfortable using Atlassian suite of products - JIRA and Confluence
. Be a good facilitator to obtain buy in and shield the team
Interested?
Please reply with your updated CV and we will be in touch shortly to discuss the next steps!
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