Summary: The role of Scrum Master requires a professional with at least 5 years of experience in the public sector, focusing on agile practices and principles. The candidate will guide and coach scrum teams, facilitate agile delivery, and manage sprint backlogs while ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. GDS experience and Scrum certification are desirable for this position, which 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 life cycle
• Strong knowledge of agile practices and principles
• Excellent facilitation and coaching skills
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations
• Experience with GDS is desirable
• Scrum certification

Salary (Rate): 400

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT