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Scrum Master London, England

Bip UK

Full Time London, England 87.5 GBP HOURLY Today

Job description

Job description

Role: Scrum Master / Cloud Migration

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months, with the possibility to extend

Rate: Competitive dependant on experience

Contract: Outside IR35

Location: Hybrid - Mostly remote working. with some on site work in London/Paris every 1-2 weeks

About the job:

BIP UK (formerly Chaucer) are part of Europe's fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 in 2025. Operating at the intersection of business and technology we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale creating greater value for your customers, employees, shareholders and society. We are over 4700 people operating in 14 countries.

Bip UK are a disability confident employer, and we interview every disabled applicant (As defined in The Equality Act 2010) that meets the minimum criteria for the job:

· At least 5+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master, RTE, PM or equivalent working experience.

· PMP, Agile Scrum Master, SAFe, PRINCE2 or similar certification

· Experience in datacenter & application migration at scale including Cloud.

· Strong understanding of Kanban/Scrum/Agile methodology

· Insurance sector experience

We are seeking a Scrum Master / Cloud Migration, for our London Market/insurance client.

The Scrum master is responsible for managing a team in charge of end-to-end application migration in the Cloud. You will be part of the Cloud Migration team.

Responsibilities

· Lead daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives;

· Ensure teams adhere to Agile principles and practices.

· Identify and remove impediments that are blocking the team's progress.

· Coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices.

· Monitor team performance and identify areas for improvement.

· Facilitate communication between team members, stakeholders, and leadership.

· Help the team to continuously improve and optimize their processes.

· Develop, maintain, and communicate metrics to drive improvement.

· Manage each projects scope and timeline.

· Be the point of contact for communications with various project stakeholders.

· Work with stakeholders to handle backlogs and new requests.

· Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.

· Create and Manage Jira Board /Confluence;

· Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.

· Migration of infrastructure and applications out of legacy data centers into Azure cloud (re-hosting, re-factoring, re-platforming) on PaaS, IaaS & CaaS (Openshift);

· Understand the infrastructure and application environment.

· Manage re-factoring/Re-platforming / Re-hosting of legacy applications and assisting in configuration, testing, deploying the applications.

· Automatic cloud infrastructure and application deployment which will eventually reduce the time and effort in provisioning and utilizing of infrastructure needed by application.

· Creating and tracking of issues in Jira and ensuring all change in requirement are documented in Jira.

· Identify planning, capacity & velocity risks, and establish required mitigation plans with program leadership.

· Establish resource plan to meet program objectives.

· Monitor and report progress against plan and adjust plan to ensure the project stays on track.

· Ensure project deliverables are high quality and are delivered on time.

· Conduct continuous improvement, optimising delivery by improving processes and outcomes.

· Provide leadership and direction in a positive and productive manner.

· Ensure transparency and trust by communicating and reporting regularly with stakeholders and teams.

Experience & Skills:

· 5+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master, RTE, PM or equivalent working experience.

· Bachelor's Degree or higher required and relevant work experience (PMP, Agile Scrum Master, SAFe, PRINCE2 or similar certification)

· Microsoft Azure certification are not required but would be highly desirable.

· Ability to quickly build relationships to navigate the organisation and clear the team's impediments.

· Outstanding communication, analytical, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, coaching, and related soft skills;

· Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organisational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important.

· Demonstrable core knowledge and skills regarding cloud technology.

· Experience in datacenter & application migration at scale including Cloud.

· Fluent in both written and spoken English.

· Ability to adapt to changing requirements, focus on iterative and incremental delivery.

· Strong understanding of Kanban/Scrum/Agile methodology;

· Customer orientation / added value, simplify in a complex organisation, autonomy and proactivity;

· Ability to listen and understand complex requirements, team spirit and willingness to share knowledge;

· Proven planning and organisation skills, creating work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.

Real world, real work, and real value, that’s the Bip UK commitment on every transformation we do. We deliver good-sense, human-centred strategies, that produce the results. We understand the possibilities can seem endless. Challenges are complex, technology ever evolving, and business goals pressurised and diverse.

Bip UK believes in conducting business for the greater good. We embrace all aspects of corporate social responsibility in a way that permeates everything we do, including not only the way we interact with our own people but with our various communities as well as the environment.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: From £550.00 per day

Benefits:

Work from home

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

Are you certified in PMP, Agile Scrum Master, SAFe, PRINCE2 or similar?
Do you have strong understanding of Kanban/Scrum/Agile methodology?
Do you have experience in datacenter & application migration at scale including Cloud?

Experience: