Scrum Master (Manchester) Manchester, England
Job description
We live for the success of our customers at Datalex, our customers recognize us for our world class products and talent and our commitment to partnership. Join us in shaping the future direction of the travel industry, working with the some of the world’s most innovative airlines. We are looking for experienced Scrum Masters who can bring their experience to bear and support us as we continue to grow and education our teams in their use of Agile/Scrum best practices to be high performing and educate new teams in their adoption of Scrum whilst having fun along the way.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies including Planning, Refinement, Retrospectives
- Ensure effective iterations are possible (Definition of Done, Ready, etc)
- Embed Agile project management best practices including risk management, cross-team interdependencies, scope definition, delivery objectives, quality standards, and user needs identification
- Champion Agile practices within the team, leading the team by example
- Communicate sprint, release and team progress to relevant stakeholders.
- Build effective and collaborative relationships with product owners, BA’s, Product Managers and development teams
- Work closely with other scrum teams to identify and minimise dependencies
- Be an effective problem solver, removing risks and impediments that may impact on the delivery of project and the overall scrum process
- Support product owner in management of the backlog, ensuring Scrum process standards, identification of stakeholders and stakeholder conditions of acceptance
Essential Skills & Experience
- 3 years’ experience minimum as a Scrum master in a technology product company
- Professional Scrum Master Certification
- Project Management experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Business or other relevant discipline
- Strong negotiation, conflict resolution and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to deal well with ambiguity and change
- Ability to influence, motivate and coach others
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience in travel industry
About Datalex
Datalex is a market leader in digital commerce for travel retailers. The Datalex Commerce Platform enables a travel marketplace of over one billion shoppers covering every corner of the globe, driven by some of the world’s most innovative airline retail brands. Its customers include Aer Lingus, Air China, Air Transat, Hainan Group of Airlines, JetBlue Airways, SITA, STA Travel, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, USA and China. Datalex is a publicly listed company and is listed on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE: DLE).
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