Scrum Master (6months FTC - 50k/yr)

Role: Scrum Master

Location: Glasgow/ Edinburgh

Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

The Scrum Master will be considered an Agile subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills, and the drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for participating proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, identifying and removing impediments, and preventing distractions. Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution, empower the team to self-organise, serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments and communicate with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
2. Tracks and removes impediments
3. Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
4. Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
5. Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
6. Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
7. Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
8. Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience. Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures. Thorough understanding of technical issues.
9. Relevant practical experience working on large-scale complex programs and spanning a wide range of applications and technologies.
10. Desirable to have a background in public sector IT delivery and ideally experience in leading technical teams.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

1. Scrum Master certification is must. Additional certification like SAFe, PMP are preferable.
2. 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.
3. Possess good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
4. Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
5. Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
6. Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
7. 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.).
8. Excellent communication and mentoring skills.