Scrum Master Ii

2 months ago

Belfast, United Kingdom OpenData Belfast Ltd Full time

**ROLE**: Scrum Master II

**LOCATION**: Belfast, United Kingdom

**SALARY**: Competitive + benefits

**REPORTING TO**: Team Lead

**About Us**

We are moving to the third age of ODB and building an InsurTech platform to enable the best digital customer experience within the North American insurance marketplace and further accelerate the success of our parent company.

We seek the best and passionate Scrum Master II to join our team to help build an innovative platform. You will have the opportunity to enter a green field environment and put your mark on creating solutions that are:

- Dedicated to improving the digital customer experience
- Use of faster/more intelligent technologies
- Add to our culture of innovation and creativity

**About The Role**

**KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES **include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Follow Agile methodologies and principles for the coordination of multiple technology projects with personnel from the various IT functions (i.e., Quality Assurance, Development, Business Analysis, DevOps, Infrastructure), and PMO.
- Organise and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, grooming, demos, and other scrum-related meetings.
- Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Develop the team to become self-organising and empowered, facilitating decision-making, issue resolution and consensus among team members.
- Embrace a servant-leader role across Scrum teams and support them by proactively identifying and resolving impediments, so that the team can focus on delivering sprint goals without interruptions.
- Coach the team on how to use agile / scrum practices and values, to increase delivered value.
- Monitor sprint burndown charts and maintain other productivity metrics to ensure that committed sprint work can be completed, while preventing scope creep and identifying risks.
- Assist in dependency management and cross team coordination to ensure work across integrated systems is prioritized and delivered by the necessary scrum teams.
- Ensure that established processes are followed across teams while providing feedback for continuous improvement.
- Assist in Jira administration, the creation of eazyBI reports, and other add-ins to support process changes, tool enhancements, reporting changes, and other improvements.
- Collaborating with team, developing, and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, including working agreements and definition of done.
- Responding quickly, flexibly, and positively to change, using it as an opportunity to learn, develop, practice, and support the organisation.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Work closely with the Project Managers on enterprise project plans, estimates, release dates, and new initiatives.
- This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

**Essential Skills and Experience**
- BSc/MSc - Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- CSM certification required.
- 6+ years working on software delivery projects.
- 4+ years of project management experience in software development using Agile and traditional SDLC methodologies.
- 4+ years of Scrum Master experience.
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership and ability to create collaborative, productive teams.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches, including Kanban and XP.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Story Mapping.

**Desirable Skills and Experience**
- A-CSM Certification preferred. PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe experience is a plus.
- Experience with enterprise agile planning tool. Experience administrating Jira preferred.
- Knowledge of the insurance industry would be beneficial but not essential.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Strong organisational and task management skills. Strong relationship management and proven experience delivering high level if internal and external customer service.

**Required Criteria**
- BSc/MSc - Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- CSM certification required.
- 6+ years working on software delivery projects.
- 4+ years of project management experience in software development using Agile and traditional SDLC methodologies.
- 4+ years of Scrum Master experience.
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership and ability to create collaborative, productive teams.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches, including Kanban and XP.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Story Mapping.

**Desired Criteria**
- A-CSM Certification preferred. PM

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