Scrum Master London, England
Job description
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
WONGDOODY is a human experience company, powered by Infosys with offices in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, the U.S, India and Australia. Since our founding in 1993, we have won hundreds of global awards for creativity and marketing effectiveness, while building a culture that consistently makes WONGDOODY one of the “Best Places to Work”. We recognize that our people and our culture are paramount to our success. It is a very exciting time here at WONGDOODY. We’re opening doors to a host of new client opportunities and capabilities, while ensuring that our current clients never outgrow the scope and scale of what we can deliver. And this paves the way for growth and expansion into new markets.
We are a team of fun, fearless, ego-less, values-driven and collaborative problem-solvers distributed around the world with one goal in mind – human experience. Human experiences are the touch points that make brands and technology matter to customers. We use strategy, creativity and data to develop engaging experiences that transform businesses. And those experiences are backed by the global technological strength of Infosys.
If you’d like to be part of our outstanding team, helping to grow WONGDOODY as well as your own career, please read on and check us out more at www.wongdoody.com.
SUMMARY
Do you have a passion for supporting individuals, teams and organisations as they mature and improve their ability to produce valuable products?
We have an opportunity for someone to train up as a Scrum Master, joining an existing product team delivering a product for a long-standing client relationship.
You will be working closely with our Agile Coach to support and optimise Agile practices for a large, cross-functional team. As you become more confident in your Agile knowledge, we will expect that you will be the primary Agile point person for the team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
- identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them
- Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services
- Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
- Facilitate team meetings and events
- Keep project reporting up to date for the wider business
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues with diplomacy and tact
- Empathy: Considering team and/or individual circumstances and context
- Encouraging & facilitating collaborative behaviour and quality communication within the team and wider business stakeholders
- Impeccable organisation skills
- Instilling a continual improvement culture that uses empirical evidence to ‘inspect and adapt’ ways of working
- Data Driven decision making skills
- Sense of humour!
Nice to haves:
- Knowledge of Product management software and Atlassian systems, such as Jira & Confluence
- Some knowledge of Agile, technical best Practices such as Continuous Integration and Delivery, Test Driven Development, pair programming and test automation, or Product Design environments
- Experience working in a client/vendor relationship
Things you’ll learn:
- Various Agile methodologies, include Scrum, Kanban/Lean, and scaling Agile practices
- Ability to motivate, coach and inspire teams with varying levels of Agile experience: upholding the Agile values & principles and promoting Agile as a mindset and culture first and foremost
- Coaching and supporting people in adjusting to and embracing change, challenging the status quo when needed
- Influencing internal and external stakeholders who were not accustomed to Agile methodologies to adopt a more agile approach
