Senior Scrum Master Open

1 week ago


London, United Kingdom Markel Full time

**About Markel**:
Avencia Consulting are an RPO who provide a recruitment service to our client Markel International.

Markel Corporation (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

In each of our businesses, we seek to deliver innovative products and adaptable customer service so that we can be a market leader. Our time horizon is long-term, our approach is disciplined, and our focus is on continuously improving the quality of thecustomer experience.

**Role Overview**:
Senior Scrum Master
London
£ Competitive + Bonus & Benefits
Are you a Senior Scrum Master who has the ability to drive a team to success? If so, you could be the person we are looking for to join out team at a time of expansion and development.
The scale and complexity of our business along with our aspiration to further leverage technology means that we need to grow and mature our IT delivery practices and capabilities.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Coaches and mentors scrum teams on Agile/scrum practices to maximise output and quality
- Facilitates discussion and decision making within the scrums and wider teams
- Ensures definitions for "ready" and "done" are clear, consistent and agreed by everyone
- Removes blockers, distractions and interference for scrum teams allowing them to focus on output
- Creates, maintains and publishes metrics on scrum output, velocity, and quality
- Facilitates the team ceremonies for sprint planning, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives
- Encourages team collaboration and prevents intimidation or coercion
- Assists (and educates) the Product Owners to maintain good quality, well maintained backlogs
- Partners with Product owners to ensure pre-planning activities are on track and pulls in delivery partners where needed for awareness and dependency discussions
- Encourage collaboration between teams on the ART and delivery partners
- Ensures team adherence to controls and governance/standards set by the Agile Release Train (Timely sprint closure, Jira field standards, etc.)
- Facilitate Mid PI Check-ins and system demos
- Foster communities of practice, introducing new and sophisticated practices to improve team(s) delivery

**What we're looking for**:

- Prior experience as a Senior Scrum Master in large Enterprises
- A pragmatic, resilient and highly motivated personality who always seeks to "get the job done"
- Practical demonstrable experience and knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework methodology
- Outstanding communications and collaboration skills
- Highly numerate and literate - able to define and present metrics that are relevant to delivery
- Experience working with multiple delivery partners in the execution of IT project
- Scrum Alliance CSM certification (or equivalent)
- Basic conceptual understanding of common IT technologies and platforms is beneficial
- Experience working in a Speciality Commercial Insurance business is advantageous

**What's in it for you**:

- A very competitive basic salary plus bonus & benefits
- 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
- Company matched pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, Green car benefit scheme, a cycle2work scheme, season ticket loan, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), parental, adoption and sharedparental leave pay..and plenty more

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