Scrum Master
Posted 3 days ago by Qualient Technology Solutions UK Limited
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Scrum Master requires a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience and a Scrum Master certification. The position is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and involves a fixed-term contract of 6 months with a hybrid working arrangement. The Scrum Master will be responsible for ensuring Agile principles are followed and facilitating various Agile ceremonies while building relationships within the team and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices.
- Track and remove impediments.
- Build relationships between the team, product owner, and the wider SPM team.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
- Ensure Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint.
- Facilitate refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates.
- Create visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Scrum Master certification is a must.
- 10+ years of IT experience with at least 3+ years as a Scrum Master for a software development team.
- Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
- Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience.
- Good understanding of software development life cycle models and traditional project management principles.
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are Looking for Scrum Master with 10 years of Experience with scrum Master certification
Location : Glasgow , Edinburgh – 3 days in Week onsite
6 months Fixed term contract
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience.
Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
Thorough understanding of technical issues.
Relevant practical experience working on large-scale complex programs and spanning a wide range of applications and technologies.
Desirable to have a background in public sector IT delivery and ideally experience in leading technical teams.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Scrum Master certification is must.
- Additional certification like SAFe, PMP are preferable.
- 10+ Years of IT experience with played as Scrum Master role for at least 3+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Possess good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.