scrum master London, England

Expleo Group

Full Time London, England 74148 - 65700 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Overview:

Are you an experienced Scrum Master looking for a new challenge and to step up in your career? As a Scrum Master, you will be working in a client facing role across a range of sectors focused on defining and implementing projects for large or complex projects within the insurance domain.

As a Scrum Master, you will be required to facilitate all aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. You will also coach and influence at all levels to drive increased agility, velocity, predictably, innovation and quality. Your role will be instrumental in initiating a traditional agile and scrum methodology, cutting edge agile methods and tools to enable teams to rapidly deliver functionality that drives customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Accountable for maximizing teams ability to deliver Sprint goals and contribute to teams OKRs
Responsible for ensuring team level ceremonies like Daily Huddles, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review etc. are conducted focusing on value return.
Accountable for driving continuous improvements for the team resulting in increased efficiency or enabling greater ROI
Accountable to both the team as a whole and each individual team member, performing as a servant leader
Accountable for identifying, tracking, removing and escalating impediments and blockers at team level to maintain both pace and flow of value
Accountable for managing and resolving intra-team dependencies by working with other Scrum Masters within the platform and external teams
Maintains the Scrum team capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts.
Identifies and helps remove impediments to the success of the Sprint.
Identifies and communicates potential risks to the completion of the Sprints, including resources, costs, and systems.
Recommends appropriate solutions.
Directs appropriate and timely communication with all department managers and customers throughout the life of the sprints.
Assists in the negotiations with the appropriate department managers for assignment of skilled resources that are not members of the Scrum team.
Protects the Scrum framework from improper modification by the Scrum team.
Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables.
Define project tasks and resource requirements.
Proactively manage project risks and issues providing appropriate issues escalation to the necessary levels.
Define metrics to correlate elapsed time with scope of work completion.
Lead the team to be accountable for the commitments they make
Foster transparency and visibility, need to ensure that a team’s progress, obstacles and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
Ensure and foster a collaborative culture within the team (instead of the traditional command and control activities).
Drive the team to improve their engineering practices and tools so that each increment of functionality is potentially shippable.
Remove impediments/blockers to project.
Shield the team from external interference.
Develops and maintains expertise in the application and use of systems, tools, and processes within the department's scope.

Qualifications:

Certified Scrum Master with a degree in Computing or Engineering.
Knowledge of Project Management processes and methodologies.
Experience in Scrum Master roles.
Lean Six Sigma qualification advantageous.

Skills:

Certified Scrum Master
Proven track record successfully delivering at least one software solution from inception to deployment using the Agile Scrum methodology
Experience as an organizational change agent driving continuous process improvement
Direct work experience in Scrum Master capacity
Proven experience as a Scrum Master
Proven experience in risk management
Proven experience in change management
Proficient in project management software
A background in consultancy would be an advantage
Critical thinking and problem solving skills
Planning and organizing
Decision-making
Communication skills
Influencing and leading
Delegation
Negotiation and influencing skills
Conflict management
Adaptability
Stress tolerance

Experience:

Insurance domain experience an advantage
ERP programme experience an advantage, especially Workday ERP
Supporting Product owners with team backlog and prioritisation management
Working with the Platform Leads to assist in the development of capability
Coaching team members, Platform leaders and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
Supporting Product owners with team backlog and priority management
Collaborating and consulting with other team leaders and scrum masters to manage resourcing and dependencies
Measuring the scrum team’s performance and velocity and working with the team on continuous improvement
Helping teams and Product Owners to define and meet the “Definition of Ready” and “Definition of Done”
Partnering with the Product Owner and/or Product Managers in backlog refinement sessions with the delivery teams, empowering them to define “how” work will be completed
Removing impediments to work in progress
Facilitating Scrum Events where required
Enabling close cooperation across all roles and functions within the Scrum Teams by building a team culture of psychological safety, ownership, continuous improvement and high standards
Spotting warning signs and ensuring the teams identify and address risks to delivery
Coaching Product Owners and/or Product Managers in techniques to order product backlog items
Defining and using appropriate metrics to forecast delivery
Actively participating in the delivery community and relevant Communities of Practice, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice

Benefits:

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
25 days annual leave (increased to 27 after 2 years of service)
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
Access to discounts and offers through my Expleo benefits
Enhanced maternity and paternity, adoption and shared parental leave package
Flexible, blended working model

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

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