About the Role
NorthRow is looking for an experienced Scrum Master as maternity cover for a small engineering team. You’ll have several years commercial experience in an Agile environment and be familiar with the tools and methods needed to facilitate collaboration and a product mindset. You’ll be a good fit if you’re positive and personable and an excellent communicator.
In this role you’ll take a lead role in Engineering and have a major impact on the performance of the team. We want to see you bring best practices and an iterative, product centric approach to development, where building something awesome is what’s important. Continual improvement is key to getting the best out of each member of our team.
Expect to collaborate with a full stack product team and the CTO to shape the implementation of significant new capabilities in our platform as we go through a major change in the business. This is not a business as usual position!
Experience/Skills
These are some of the skills and experience we’re looking for in this position:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Facilitating scrum ceremonies - retros, stand ups, 3 amigos, reviews etc
- Coaching Agile scrum teams - T-shaped, vertical slicing, continuous delivery, etc
- Jira management - e.g. roadmap, sprint boards, dashboards
- Reporting to senior leadership - Jira, Looker Studio
- Cross team collaboration & communication
- Certified Scrum Master - (not essential)
Person Specification
- Growth mindset and Curiosity: We are still working on ways to make our systems, processes, software, and everything we do, better. We’ll expect you to have a voice, raise problems and bring innovation.
- Teamworking: We will achieve more by working together to achieve common goals. We need people who know their own strengths and weaknesses, and can empathise with others.
- Tenacious: we need people who are tenacious and resilient and who don’t get downhearted if results don’t go their way; we are a scale-up and things change rapidly - you need to find that exciting, not frustrating.
- Ownership: we are looking for people who take the initiative to fix shared problems and move forward fast. There is no time for blame or fault.
Benefits
- Remote First Working - Ergonomic home setup including laptop, monitors, peripherals, etc, but the freedom to take your work to a cafe or shared work space, whatever suits you
- Flexibility - Work around the core hours - make time for the school run, the doctor - we’re serious about work/life balance
- Recognition Fridays - Discretionary half day on fridays to get out and enjoy life!
- Working Abroad - A yearly allowance to have a taste of the digital nomad experience
- Quarterly company events with expenses paid, to meet up and get to know each other better
- Supported learning - There will be so much to learn on the job, but we want everyone to develop and grow, so we promote self-learning - e.g. paying for AWS certification exams
- Plus - Up to 30 days annual leave, Life Insurance, Private Healthcare, Company Pension and a competitive salary!
About NorthRow
NorthRow is an established VC backed scale-up organisation that delivers SaaS solutions through an API-led product strategy. We help businesses manage the regulatory and financial crime risks that their counterparty relationships expose them to. By transforming complex compliance processes, our platform enables our customers to drive revenue, reduce costs, and meet regulations.
Manual solutions to fight financial crime are costly. Additional resource investment, longer timescales, poor customer service, higher abandonment rates, and exposure to fines and penalties, are all real risks. We help our clients to address these risks and so play our part in reducing the impact of financial crime. Recognising the challenges businesses face, NorthRow has developed a platform with a single powerful API, as well as a newly released and market leading SaaS platform:
https://www.northrow.com/about-workstation/
