Scrum Master

**An organisation with a strong purpose, vision and goal - we're all about living health confident.**

**Position**:
**Scrum Master**
**Worthing, West Sussex - Hybrid**
**Full time, Permanent**
*Up to £55,000 per year
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**Why we need you**

Bluecrest has an exciting goal to become the UK’s leading health intelligence company, building valuable and beneficial user experiences through its software and data. The development teams are a vital enabler to meeting this planned strategic goal, and the role of Scrum master is seen as critical to ensure great team efficiency, quality, motivation, and happiness.

The Scrum master plays their part by ensuring the team not only operate as efficiently as they can to meet the technology roadmap with quality, but also look to continuously improve on their practices. They will execute a strategy of building effective team processes and work closely with the CTO, providing collaboration, updates and team insights.

They are therefore instrumental to the success of the company strategy, ensuring deliverables are built well and have a high chance of meeting technical and roadmap expectations.

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What we can offer you in return*
- A competitive salary of up to £55,000 per year
- Four free Health Assessments per year, which can be used by yourself, family or friends
- A further 50% off any additional testing
- 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 days after 1 year, and rising an extra day each year up to 28 days - plus bank holidays on top
- EAP Scheme
- Company sick pay scheme
- Enhanced family leave
- Life Insurance
- Employee referral bonus scheme of up to £1,000
- Matched company pension (up to 5% or up to capped amount)
- Home office allowance - yearly allowance of £130 to make working from home more comfortable

As a Scrum Master at Bluecrest Wellness you will be working with the Senior Leadership Team on the development and delivery of an exciting programme of work across multiple platforms. You will be an Agile enthusiast, passionately aiming to establish an environment of highly motivated and highly performing software development teams. You will use your knowledge of Agile principles and the Scrum framework to lead and guide the team in Agile practices, continually improving its processes to enable delivery success.

Outside of the team, you will work alongside other roles to help the wider organisation in its understanding of Agile ways of working, fostering a culture of shared knowledge and collaboration.

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Job definition:*
- Facilitation of Scrum events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up’s, Sprint Reviews and retrospectives, ensuring they are positive and productive
- Assist the Product Owner in the creation of the Product backlog and their effective interaction with the Development Team
- Facilitate Sprint set up, execution and closure ensuring the Development Team are focused on achieving the Sprint Goal
- Take ownership of removing impediments on behalf of the Development Team
- Provide demonstrable outcomes from Sprint Retrospectives ensuring the Development Team are continually learning and making steps to increase productivity and quality
- Provide on-going coaching for the Development team and the Product Owner, ensuring they are adequately trained on best practice
- Use key Agile metrics and processes to guide the team in effective estimation, planning and delivery tracking
- Report on delivery progress, escalating risks and impediments to Business Stakeholders where necessary
- Carry out Release Management activities to ensure planned releases are coordinated and carried out to agreed standards
- Work closely with IT Application Support ensuring Production Incidents are owned and effectively managed by Development team
- Actively contribute to the development of Bluecrest’s Ways of Working providing insight and industry best practice from an Agile & Scrum perspective
- Take the lead in your learning and development always seeking news ways to improve and develop in the role

**Requirements**:
**Required skills and experience**
- Experience running Scrum events and Agile ceremonies
- Experience of working with Agile Toolsets such as Jira and Confluence
- Experience of Agile Engineering practices such CI/CD, Pair Programming and test automation
- Experience working with business stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent documentation and organisational skills
- Strong verbal and communication skills
- A team player with high energy and can-do attitude
- Versatile, able to present alternative solutions and cope well under pressure
- Inquisitive and analytical
- Determined to be the best at what you do

Friendly and approachable
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**Other information**:
**The next steps**

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Equal Opportunities*
- Bluecrest Wellness is a proud promoter of the Equality Act 2010. We believe in fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting diversity in our employment practices. We do not discriminate in employment based on race, religion, sexual ori