Scrum Master

Salary £50,000 to £55,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) + excellent benefits.

Job Purpose:

Work with and inspire the team to enable continuous delivery of working and valuable software into production in an Agile development model.

Working location:

The role is based in the Milton Keynes office. The role can be fulfilled via a hybrid arrangement of 3 days in the office each week.

Key Responsibilities:

In line with the SIS Values, the main responsibilities of the role are set out below.

Trusted Delivery:

• Coach the development team and product owners on effective user story writing utilising a range of techniques such as impact mapping, story mapping, etc.
• Work with Business analyst and product owners to help them define and share product vision with the development team, thus ensuring that everybody is aligned and works towards a common goal.
• Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies with a focus on collaboration and empowering people, as opposed to just doing administrative tasks around the ceremonies and JIRA.
• Represent the scrum team in discussion with Project Manager and senior management around delivery plans.
• Work with other stakeholders in the project in managing planning of software changes to production and represent the technical team in Change authorization meetings
• Shield the team from distractions. Remove impediments.
• Follow through with retrospective actions. Continuously review progress against the benchmarks (agile health reports).
• Remove any barriers within the teams, thus enabling a close cooperation across all roles and functions that surround the team.

Better Together:

• Develop and build effective relationships with customers and stakeholders
• Support the wider business initiatives for growth
• Ensure regular and clear communications (written/verbal) within SIS Development, business customers and other project stakeholders at all seniority levels
• Maintain a cohesive team relationship and manage discipline when needed

Inspiring Enthusiasm:

• Identify new ideas and processes for Better Business
• Committed to continuous personal development
• Articulates a vision that generates excitement, enthusiasm and commitment

Focused Innovation:

• Ensure that the best interests of SIS are always upheld
• Provide high quality and timely delivery of duties
• Operate within the legal and regulatory framework

Skills and Experience:

• Certified Scrum Master or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of working in the enterprise environment with dozens of interdependent software systems.
• Effective stakeholder management. Ability to influence others to achieve a common goal.
• Experience of implementing Agile on large scale (SAFe, Less).
• Advanced JIRA user (workflows, schemes, fields, etc).
• Outstanding negotiation, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Skilled in refinement, estimation, story splitting, retrospection, velocity, and other Scrum techniques.
• Expert knowledge of Agile frameworks or methods, like Scrum or Kanban. You must understand relevant software development life cycle models. It also requires an in-depth understanding of traditional project management practices and principles.