Lead Scrum Master (G7)

Lead Scrum Master (G7)

Come and join HMRC's vibrant, new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle, where the needs of our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Using agile methods and the latest technology, you'll be right at the forefront of building revolutionary new digital services that will be used by millions, changing forever how individuals, businesses and agents deal with their tax affairs

In HMRC we offer attractive benefits, good career prospects and a commitment to support your continued professional development, including regular development reviews and access to learning opportunities - both on the job and more formal learning.

Travel to other offices may also be expected from time to time.

About the role

You are an essential component of the multi-disciplinary agile Digital Delivery Centre. Your outstanding experience delivering online, web and digital products will be essential to ensure the smooth running of a highly paced collaborative environment. The role of Lead Scrum master will not only lead the Scrum Master community but also work and collaborate with our software development teams, product managers, operations managers and other digital centre's to ensure we have the technologies and processes we need in place for our 20 teams to work efficiently and do their jobs. As Lead Scrum Master for Digital Centre you will be responsible to remove blockers and impediments and resolve issues with technology throughout the Centre on a daily basis and continually improve processes and working practices. Ensure that all our scrum teams are working consistently and delivering to the agile scrum methodology, implement reporting and monitoring progress.

You will need:

• A passion for the web, digital and web technologies

• Must have worked in a similar role

• Excellent communicator

• Strong technical skills in both infrastructure and software development

• Extensive agile and scrum experience

• Strong team leadership, management and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate, energise people, encouraging self-management and collaborative working

• Experience of leading and delivering web and digital solutions with transactional capability and interfacing to customer data systems

• Significant background within open source' technologies such as Java, Scala, Jenkins, Ruby, Django, Python, Jenkins etc

• Certified Scrum Master Certification is highly beneficial

• Knowledge of WebOps, DevOps, Cloud based systems is highly beneficial