Summary: The Agile Scrum Master role requires a professional with extensive experience in the telecommunications sector, responsible for guiding teams in agile practices and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The position involves organizing scrum events, collaborating with Product Owners, and facilitating communication across teams. The successful candidate will work on-site in Reading once a week and will be engaged in a 6-month contract with potential for extension. This role emphasizes stakeholder management, innovation, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure teams adhere to agile/scrum practices prescribed by the VM DNT Agile Chapter.
• Organize and conduct scrum events, including sprint planning meetings, retrospectives, product demos, and daily scrums.
• Partner with Product Owners to achieve high-quality and timely deliverables based on business value.
• Manage sprint planning and execution, providing visibility into sprint status.
• Participate in roadmap planning and scheduling, providing scrum team statistics and identifying project dependencies.
• Identify and mitigate potential issues and roadblocks to ensure high throughput of development teams.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize, refine, and detail the product backlog.
• Facilitate issue resolution within the team and safeguard scrum teams from external influences.
• Assist with backlog maintenance and prioritization of defect resolution.
• Coach scrum team members in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Create and maintain sprint and product burndowns, velocity metrics, and forecasts.
• Contribute to the rollout of agile methodologies through training and coaching.
• Support and guide scrum and Kanban teams in agile deliveries.
• Collaborate with other agile practitioners to ensure alignment and standardization of practices.
• Liaise with the Product Owner and delivery leads to understand strategic priorities and product roadmaps.

Key Skills:

• Stakeholder Management
• Speed and disruptive thinking
• Ability to accept uncertainty
• Flexibility in agile environments
• Collaboration and customer perspective
• Responsibility and commitment
• Innovation and creative decision-making
• Passion and enthusiasm for the role
• Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Resilience and proactive attitude
• Experience with agile, scrum, or lean methodologies
• Telecommunications industry experience

Salary (Rate): 494

City: Reading

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT