| Location: West Sussex | Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum |
| Sector: Client Delivery, Medical Devices, Engineering, Life Sciences | Specialism: |
| Type: Permanent | Contact: Zak Mendoza |
Scrum Master
West Sussex
Brief
Scrum Master needed for a highly reputable Medical Device organisation based in West Sussex who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Scrum Master that takes pride in their work with significant hands-on Scrum Master experience, agile experience in Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP Practices and/or SAFE and ideally experience in hardware or complex systems engineering.
What the role entails:
Some of the main duties of the Scrum Master will include:
- Playing the role of scrum master and agile coach for one or more teams
- Work with the teams to improve say/do commitments
- Work closely with functional management to highlight and help remove impediments impacting development teams
- Escalate risks and issues needing management attention
- Help manage dependencies between delivery teams
- Radiating information that ensures team's progress/success are highly visible to stakeholders and the team (backlogs, metrics, etc.).
- Mentoring and supporting less experienced scrum masters.
- Creating a positive and open culture where creativity and innovation can flourish.
- Coaching the team on agile practices and effective ceremony execution (standups, estimation, backlog grooming, demonstrations, retrospectives - inspect and adapt workshops).
- Holding clinics to teach agile concepts and create communities of practice across the organization.
- Improving team's engineering quality practices by encouraging TDD, pair programming, test automation, continuous integration, and collective ownership.
What experience you need to be the successful Scrum Master:
- Significant hands-on Scrum Master experience
- Agile experience in Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP Practices and/or SAFE
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to work with technical teams
- Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships
- Ability to enact change quickly
- Strong leadership and conflict resolution skills
- Proficient in MS Office
- Experience in hardware or complex systems engineering strongly preferred
- Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally) or JIRA and SharePoint desired]
This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Scrum Master to progress their career. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!
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