Scrum Master

Are you an experienced and dynamic Scrum Master looking for your next opportunity?

This role will support the company vision by coaching a number of delivery teams to become well-motivated, high-performing and self-organising. They will also facilitate an increased understanding of agile philosophy and best practice across the organisation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To support the Head of Production in the evolution of the Production department as part of the Leadership Team.
• To work with a small number of Production teams to deliver on time and to the requisite quality
• To facilitate all elements of the Agile production process in order to ensure efficient and effective delivery of content
• To coach and support team members to develop skills, collaborate effectively, share knowledge and become self-managing
• To help remove impediments for teams and individuals to enable them to focus on building and delivering quality software
• To identify and use meaningful metrics to report progress to the business and to help the team continuously improve
• To support and work with the Product Owners in carrying out user research, defining opportunities and building feature backlogs
• Promote transparency and communication across the business
• Promote continuous improvement through effective and ongoing retrospectives with the teams
• To challenge assumptions, identify and escalate issues and concerns as appropriate, ensuring recommendations for resolution are considered
• To monitor the number and skillsets of the people within the teams and to highlight to the organisation when the existing team levels may not have capacity to reach desired goals
• To work closely with the Production Team Leads in order to develop the performance of the team and individual team members, coaching an 'inspect and adapt' outlook
• To share best practice with the other Scrum Masters, ensuring adoption within own team to deliver optimum performance

Person Specification:

Essential:

• A minimum of two years' experience of Scrum Mastery in Agile development, with appropriate industry certification
• Collaborates successfully with developers, testers, architects and business representatives alike
• Effective at adapting Agile/Lean methodologies to ensure best fit for delivering the business goals
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle methodologies
• Experience of working to deadlines within a fast-paced industry
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to quickly develop relationships of trust
• Self-motivated with a track record of delivering to meet business objectives
• Able to prioritise and manage own workload effectively
• Demonstrable experience of sharing knowledge effectively with others
• Track record of facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and servant leadership skills

Desirable:

• Experience in working in a commercial software company
• Knowledge of Muddy Boots products
• Experience of UX or customer research
• Experience of other Agile/Lean methodologies