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Lead Scrum Master
12 months
£61.57 per hour (Inside IR35)
3 days on site (Preston PR4)
Role Description
Here you will be working with teams of 10-13 like-minded professionals at different levels striving for best practice and operational excellence.
Core Duties:
Typical duties include (but are not limited to):
- Working closely with product owners and other stakeholders to help them better understand their requirements and help the product owner define and maintain a well refined product backlog
- Removing impediments so the development team can focus on the work at hand or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to help them
- Using data collected from the development team to develop a picture of areas of success and improvement using the chosen system.
- Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team/organisation, and coaching the team and more junior scrum masters to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation
- Building a trusting and psychologically safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving
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Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:
Knowledge:
- Knowledge and experience of using Lean/Agile/Traditional techniques and methodologies (required)
- Experience of working in agile teams for 5+ years (required)
Skills:
- Ability to use appropriate toolsets, such as the Atlassian suite, SharePoint, Microsoft Office applications and develop and act on appropriate metrics (Required)
- Strong leadership behaviours – able to manage 2 Scrum Teams of medium to high size and complexity (required)
- Ability to Communicate effectively
- Able to explore different ways and options to overcome obstacles and respond quickly to changing circumstances
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Qualifications:
- PSM1/CSM Qualifications or relevant experience (Essential)
- APM qualification, or similar (Desirable)
About the team you’ll be working in
- Expectation of 3 to 4 days a week on site, Mon-Thurs is preferred.
- Whole project stands at approx. 250 people, with a each scrum team being roughly 5-10 people.
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