Scrum Master
Location : Glasgow, Scotland, UK
6 months Fixed term contract
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
- Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience. Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures. Thorough understanding of technical issues.
- Relevant practical experience working on large-scale complex programmes and spanning a wide range of applications and technologies.
- Desirable to have a background in public sector IT delivery and ideally experience in leading technical teams.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Scrum Master certification is must. Additional certification like SAFe, PMP are preferable.
- 10+ Years of IT experience with played as Scrum Master role for at least 3+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Possess good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to £50,000.00 per year