Scrum Master

**Scrum Master**

**Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits**

**Where the job is based**: hybrid (home-based & working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ

**Who we are**:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value

With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.

People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.

**Who we are looking for**:
The agile delivery team enabler capable of building effective teams by unlocking what will work for the team rather than just policing agile processes. Highly effective at building relationships within your teams and with the project stakeholders too, actively removing impediments and reducing waste to increase team alignment and autonomy. A true servant-leader, coaching individuals, teams and customers in adopting agile working practices and increasing effectiveness to take ownership and accountability for their work.

**Required Experience**:

- Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business
- Creating and maintaining the environment in which the agile delivery will succeed
- Working with on/offshore development/implementation teams
- Living the eight stances of a Scrum Master
- Upholding the principles of the Manifesto of Agile Software Development.
- Educating teams in agile ways of working with excellent facilitation skills
- Using a range of agile frameworks and methodologies and not adopting a "one size fits all" approach
- Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell), working alongside our project managers and delivery managers
- Working with a continuous improvement mindset to articulate what better looks like
- Software, Digital or Business Scrum Mastery holding relevant certifications to back up your in-depth experience
- Disciplined Agile Scrum Master / Senior Scrum Master / Coach is highly desirable
- Excellent written and presentation skills, the ability to think on feet and make decisions
- Other tasks as reasonably requested

**We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;**
- ability to understand and drive deliverables within the Scrum team,
- ability to work closely with a Product Owner on priorities and backlog refinement
- ability to run stand-ups, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives, show and tells, and guide others to do so
- ability to closely with other Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Solution and Software Architects to ensure cross team co-ordination,
- ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

**What we can do for you**:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:

- **Real Flexibility** - we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
- **Awesome Environment **- all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on - that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
- **Interesting Work** - these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
- **Great Benefits** - all the usual suspects and then some. Some highli