Scrum Master

Scrum Master
Bradford, Bingley, West Yorkshire
£40,000 - £50,000

Our client has an opportunity for a Scrum Master to join their team in Bingley.

You will enable the creation of valuable products by fostering high performing Scrum teams and a business aligned to Agile principles and values. Doing whatever is needed to support and facilitate the Scrum team to achieve delivery goals, helping to alleviate impediments in their processes and delivery.
Nurture, support and be a servant leader to Scrum teams. As a Scrum Master you should support the Product Owner, the development team and the organisation in various ways, including: facilitation, impediment removal, coaching and coordination.

A servant leader is someone whose focus is to ensure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. “Encouraging, supporting and enabling peers to realise their full potential and abilities”

Responsibilities:

• Business and development team adoption of iterative delivery and planning methods
• Creation of a feedback culture
• High performing, self-organized Scrum teams
• Development team engaged in Agile delivery methods, holding each other and the team to account
• Successful utilization of Scrum Ceremonies to support product/project delivery
• Consistent and predictable development team capacity
• Development team shielded from outside distractions and helped to remove impediments

What are they looking for:

Knowledge:

• Demonstrable experience of previous role as Scrum Master 
• Agile values and principles
• Understand all aspects of the software delivery life cycle
• Deep understanding of Scrum framework and how to apply it
• Understanding of other frameworks and methodologies desirable (Kanban, XP, Nexus, SAFe)
• Champion agile practices and continuous improvement initiatives
• Solid understanding of iterative development and incremental delivery.
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Experience in coaching and facilitation techniques
• Analytical analyse techniques for Scrum and project

Behaviours and Attributes:

• Resourceful – creative in removing impediments to productivity
• Enabling – passionate about helping others be effective
• Tactful – diplomacy personified
• Respected – has a reputation for integrity both within the team and in the wider organisation
• Alternative – is prepared to promote a counter-culture
• Inspiring – generate enthusiasm and energy in others
• Nurturing – enjoy helping both individuals and teams develop and grow
• Empathic – is sensitive to those around them
• Disruptive – breaks the old status quo and helps create a new way of working
• Tenacity – keeps pressing forward to promote positive change