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CBP Modernisation - COTAX Futures - Scrum Master
Location: Telford - 2 days onsite per week
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £492 per day (PAYE through Umbrella)
Job Description:
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to clients across EMEA, APAC, US, and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Fantastic opportunity for an experienced, delivery savvy, senior Scrum Master to join a two-year project to modernise one of CLIENT’s largest and most critical services (COTAX = Corporation Tax) in Tax Admin, on the CLIENT Account.
Following a six-month Discovery phase, the work has been broken down into fourteen Business Flows, each of which will complete a Time and Materials based Design phase before moving into a Fixed Price Build and Test phase. Unlike most projects on the account, this project includes full testing responsibilities i.e. testing stages usually contracted to a Test and Release supplier are contracted with Client. In addition to the standard test stages post System Testing e.g. SIT and E2E, this project will be pioneering approaches to Model Office and System Output Comparison testing.
AI is and must be for the duration, at the forefront of our approach. Tax Admin has a dedicated AI Acceleration team working collaboratively with COTAX to shape AI solutions, some of which are already actively being used. Our commitment to CLIENT is that we will continuously develop and intercept new and changing AI solutions to maximise productivity, time, cost, and / or quality benefits.
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The project leadership team is well established and the initial scrum team is formed and developing, currently operating as one large scrum team but needing to become two scrum teams under one Scrum Master asap. The scrum team are working through Design of the first Business Flow. Our team(s) must grow at pace in order to deliver upon our commitments to CLIENT with expectations that we could end up with 6-8 scrum teams and one Scrum Master per two scrum teams. This means the successful candidate joining now has the opportunity to fulfil a leading role in shaping how we work and working with other Scrum Masters as they join, as well being part of the wider Modernisation and Tax Admin. Scrum Master community.
The Scrum Master will work closely with: Delivery Leads, PM, Architects, Business Analysts, QA Leads, Lead Engineers, and their whole scrum teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies across two scrum teams including:
- Scrums
- Sprint planning
- Backlog Refinement
- Reviews and Retrospectives
- Actively drive cross-team learning, knowledge sharing, and best practice
- Ensure effective and consistent use of Jira and Confluence across teams, considering all stakeholder needs
- Work hand in hand with the Delivery Lead to understand, track, and communicate progress and issues
- Protect teams from distractions and foster a high-performing, motivated environment
- Drive pace and urgency to meet delivery milestones
- Drive a culture that embraces change to ways of working, e.g., development and interception of AI solutions
- Embed a culture of ownership and accountability, in relation to delivering against commitments
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We Are Looking For:
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams on complex projects and / or programmes
- Extensive experience with agile tooling e.g., JIRA, and Confluence including for progress reporting
- Experience of scrum mastering in new teams, building from the ground up, as well as in mature teams
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often shortlisted within 48 hours.
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