Scrum Master- Infrastructure & Platforms

Candidate's required/essential experience

• Agile coaching experience & strong training facilitation skills
• Scrum master qualification will be preferred
• Experience with DevOps
• Experience on large programmes
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by Agile teams

Experienced Agile PM or Agile Delivery Lead that has a strong track record in managing and delivering across digital projects. Someone with Product Owner background that can work with a multidisciplinary team and deliver across products will be an ideal candidate.

The candidate should have a strong background in delivering using cloud-based technologies including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft DevOps (VSTS) and Agile delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process, prioritisation of work that needs to be done against the product roadmap and capacity of the team
• Own the cross-products capacity planning and work allocation optimisation
• Identify risks and issues, assessing and recognising criticalities and contingencies
• Ensure the product team adheres to agile principles and actively try to identify areas of improvement and methods on how to be more efficient
• Contribute and drive improvements in the agile tooling configuration
• Continuously track the delivery progress and report on value releases aligned to the product roadmap
• Facilitate workshops, meetings and stakeholder management within the wider organisation
• Work with the Product Owners to scope the requirements and translate them into a realistic release plan

Skills required:

• Communicative and social - Must be able to communicate well with teams, business owners and business leads
• Facilitative - Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to the team and contribute to the overall process improvement
• Assertive - Must be able to ensure that delivery is optimised, and Agile principles are being Embedded within the team.
• Must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls when needed but also be supportive and collaborative
• Situationally Aware - Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
• Enthusiastic - Must have high-energy
• Continual improvement - Must continually be growing one's craft, trying new techniques to manage the delivery and teams
• Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion, define alternatives or different approaches
• Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organisation
• Attitude of transparency - Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about delivery and build stakeholder trust

Technical Skills:

• Understand the fundamentals of product planning and iterative development
• Understands the fundamentals of data and analytics processes and procedures
• Understands the value of commitments to delivery
• Understands backlog planning and tracking, capacity planning across multiple products, burndown and other reporting metrics, velocity tracking and improvements on delivering vs commitments
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, capacity management and multi-functional team planning

Essential Functional/Technical Skills

• Experience of an agile framework or method as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.

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