Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master (permanent)

Client: Financial Services

Location: Hybrid – 1 day per week in their London office

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum

Description:

Provide overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices.
Guide an Agile team to efficiently deliver high value products
Coach the Agile team to adapt to an environment where Agile is not fully deployed/understood.
Interacts with people outside the Agile team to coach them in the Agile methodology to clarify how they can best contribute to the delivery team.

Increase efficiency of Agile team though:
– organizing/facilitating scrum events & decision-making processes (sprint and release planning, identification of tasks, sizing effort, progress reporting, demo and retrospective)
– removing impediments (managing conflicting interests, negotiating inputs between different parties, proactively identifying issues and risks and adjusting scope, etc.)
– Facilitate team transparency and share progress using the appropriate communication channels.
– Plan and coordinate testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.
– Work with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve (quality, productivity).
– Coach the team to be self-organized and cross-functionality as well as to adopt of Agile practices
– Collect and analyzes team KPIs (velocity, …)
– Follow-up, report and contribute to risks management (e.g. compliance, security, procurement/finance/licenses)
– Ensure that deliverables follow guidelines and standards (e.g. documentation)
– Conduct the team’s planning sessions and translates them into capability plans
– Provide guidelines to Product Owner to take on the PO role and manage the Product Backlog (with dependencies, ambiguity, volatility, architectural and infrastructural complexity)