Client
My client currently has a requirement for a Scrum Master to join their growing team . As Scrum Master you will be key in driving cross functional collaboration. You will guide the scrum teams to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritisation, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Responsibilities
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Driving Scrum adoption across all levels in the organisation.
- Enabling the Scrum Team to improve its practices, within the Scrum framework.
- Facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams with complex cross-functional deliverables.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity.
- Ensuring the Scrum teams are self-organising and coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality.
- Facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies, that is, the Daily Stand Up, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the time.
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress.
- Partnering with Product Owner to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple functional areas.
Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in technology, sciences, engineering, or related field.
- Agile / Scrum Certification.
- 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Possess an excellent understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Experience using Agile/Scrum tools (example JIRA).
- Solid understanding of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team roles.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- Must have good planning, organisational, and decision-making skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Contact
If you feel this role is for you please contact Mick Duffy on +353 1 525 4647 or mduffy@softwareplacements.ie