Scrum Master

2 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Ronald James Group Full time

Ronald James Group
2023-02-15

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join a company within the gaming sector. You will be a leader, ensuring projects are effectively developed, integrated and deployed with high quality and on time. As well as, coach and mentor teams to deliver critical, customer-facing, enterprise-class software development projects while continuously growing and improving

**Key Skills**:

- Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master/Product Owner (CSM,CSPO, SAFe) or equivalent professional qualification
- Excellent communication skills, with experience in influencing, listening actively and negotiating within a team environment
- Broad experience of working in a variety of Agile environments of different maturities.
- Exposure to large scale Agile delivery across multiple teams and geographies and the recognition that this is sometime achieved best with flexible working
- Positive leadership skills, with experience in mentoring and inspiring a team and conflict resolution
- Experience in the use of at least one tool for managing agile delivery (training and support with use of JIRA and Confluence available)
- Positive attitude, friendly to others, encouraging of co-operation, honesty and respectfulness in the workplace
- Understanding of Software development processes and procedures
- Collaborative mindset, with an ability to empathise with colleagues and establish relationships
- Understanding of change management and release processes
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of competency using Scrum practices.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Fulfil the role of the Scrum Master within a dedicated team using Agile practices
- Supervise and facilitate teams in all Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
- Responsible for creatively removing impediments from the Scrum team so they can continue to perform at their best
- Create, maintain and deliver on project and workstream plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing understanding and needs
- Identify and manage the risks associated with projects to achieve project success
- Ensure that the Definition of Done is being followed by the tea
- Support and educate the Product Owner on refining the product backlog and make them ready for upcoming sprints, enabling longer-term work visibility for reporting to delivery and management teams
- Demonstrate ability to influence Product Development and Management teams to improve product features and supportability of a product offering by identifying problems and suggesting and/or driving the implementation of fixes or features.
- Work together with the team during project estimation sessions and share an understanding of projected durations and release plans with leadership team
- Facilitate the teams desire for creativity, continual improvement of efficiency and capability
- Measure team sprint success by using standard sprint metrics and drive team efficiency and productivity improvement through data points
- Assisting with internal and external communication, maintaining transparency.
- Influence others including those more senior on best practices in Agile
- Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and coaching them to higher levels of maturity.

**Benefits**:

- Remote/Flexible Working
- Quarterly team events
- Birthday Holiday
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Tech Loan Scheme
- Performance bonus & profit share scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Travel Loan scheme
- Supplies of fresh fruits, cereals, biscuits, nibbles, etc. in the offices
- Friday-evening beers
- Relevant training and training budget


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