Summary: The Scrum Master role requires a professional with at least 5 years of experience in the public sector, focusing on guiding and coaching scrum teams in agile practices. The candidate should have a background in software development and be adept at facilitating agile delivery and managing sprint backlogs. The position is remote and classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adopt a customer focus to understanding what the customer and user needs
• Guide and coach the scrum team on agile practices and principles
• Facilitate the agile delivery, ensuring scope and objectives are understood by the scrum team
• Coordinate the agile ceremonies including daily scrum, sprint planning, review, and retrospectives
• Manage the agreed sprint backlog
• Lead the cross-functional scrum team to influence and drive decisions, supporting the PO managing stakeholder expectations
• Ensure any blockers/impediments to the scrum team's progress are surfaced and resolved
• Attend the scrum of scrums and support the senior scrum master
• Collaborate with the programme leadership team communicating progress in the scrum of scrums as well as participating in Programme Increment Planning
• GDS experience is desirable
• Scrum certified

Key Skills:

• Minimum 5 years experience as a Scrum Master
• Background in software development
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience in agile practices and principles
• Ability to facilitate agile ceremonies
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience in the public sector
• GDS experience (desirable)
• Scrum certification

Salary (Rate): 400

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT