Scrum Master

Position Title: PI Scrum Master

Duration: 9 Month Rolling Contract

Location: Gaydon & Whitley

Division: Engineering Operations

Position Description:

• Product Information (PI) is the beating heart of our business.
• As a department we are responsible for the delivery of coherent and timely Product Specification and Bill of Materials in line with Programme timing.
• As a PI Scrum Master you will play a pivotal part in our agile transformation and will help guide the teams in there adoption of agile principles and practices.
• As PI Scrum Master, your key responsibilities will be; Guiding squads to plan work through focused and engaging meetings.
• Working with multiple squads and/or coach/support less experienced SMs.
• Coaching and upskilling scrum squads in self-management and cross-functionality collaboration.
• You will have a deep understanding of how to make a squad into a high performing squad and demonstrate this by clearly improving squad KPIs.
• Identifying and helping in the removal of obstacles that are slowing down squad acceleration.
• Promoting empowerment and transparency in the squad.
• Ensuring the Product Owner is clear on squad ambition and setting sprint goals.
• Supporting the squad with creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Establishing empirical product planning within a complex environment.
• Facilitating stakeholder collaboration wherever required.
• Championing Scrum adoption and implementation across Product Information.

Skills Required:

• Agile Coach Skilled at obstacle resolution and problem solving
• Exceptional communication skills

Experience Required:

• Creating Self-Organising Squads
• Creating Cross-functional Squads
• Agile Ceremony Facilitation Coaching and mentoring

Experience Preferred:

• Experienced in JIRA, Confluence, Lucidspark Professional Scrum Master Certified (Scrum.Org)
• PSM 1 Professional Scrum Master Certified (Scrum.Org)
• PSM 2 Professional Scrum with Kanban (Scrum.Org)
• PSK 1 Professional Scrum Product Owner Certified (Scrum.Org)
• PSPO 1

Additional Information :

• Locations: Gaydon & Whitley
• Hybrid working: Min 3 days/wk. on site