Head of Scrum

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Job Description

As Head of Scrum Management, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful implementation of Agile methodologies, facilitating the Scrum process, and enabling cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products efficiently. You will work closely with development teams, product owners, and stakeholders to foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. You will provide line management to a small team of scrum masters and business analysts, ensuring a consistent approach across different development projects and facilitating a structured development path for your team members. This is a hands on role so you will be expected to carry out your scrum master duties in addition to providing leadership to your team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a servant leader, guiding and coaching multiple Agile development teams to embrace and follow Scrum principles and practices.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Remove impediments and obstacles that hinder the team's progress and help them become self-organizing.
• Ensure that Agile teams adhere to Agile/Scrum best practices and principles while customising processes to suit team needs.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by helping the team identify areas for enhancement and facilitating retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to manage the product backlog, prioritise user stories, and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Foster open communication and collaboration between team members, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Educate team members and stakeholders on Agile principles and processes, ensuring a shared understanding of Agile values.
• Monitor and report on team progress, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to management and stakeholders.
• Actively seek opportunities to expand Agile and Scrum knowledge and promote Agile best practices within the organisation.
• To be responsible for the line management of Scrum Masters and Business Analysts in your team and to formulate personal development plans to ensure a structured career progression
• Document scrum processes and ways of working and ensure that such documentation is kept up to date and relevant
  
  

Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification is strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and their application.
• Experience with leading people and line management
• Strong understanding of the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework
• An understand of User Centred Design and how this practice integrates with software engineering
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Results-driven with a focus on delivering value to customers.
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams is a plus.
• Excellent working knowledge of Jira/Confluence including the setting up and administration of projects, workflows and Kanban boards
• Must be eligible for Security Clearance or higher
  
  

Character Traits:

• Leadership: Must exhibit strong leadership qualities to lead the team effectively.
• Collaborator: The ability to understand, support and share the feelings of the team and stakeholders.
• Strong communication: Effective communication skills to manage the team and to liaise with stakeholders.
• Problem-solving: Ability to facilitate discussions, enable decision-making processes, and conflict resolution.
• Adaptability: Comfortable with change, able to respond to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
  
  

Additional Information

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.
  
  

Other Information

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks.
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.
  
  

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

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Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

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