Experienced Scrum Master opportunity in Leeds, West Yorkshire to join a high profile financial services company to co-ordinate the delivery of bespoke and packaged systems, facilitating and driving forward the business change process with the effective delivery of solutions.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established organisation based in Leeds with strong growth plans to further develop its financial services offering. The role is hybrid (2 days a week in their Leeds office) with some flexible remote working with an excellent salary to £60K plus bonus and attractive benefits package including: 26 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, Death in service x 4, Permanent health insurance, Private medical insurance or contribution towards gym membership and a generous Pension scheme (up to 12%).
Scrum Master – Key Skills and Experience
- Experience working in an agile software delivery environment
- Experience as a scrum-master of co-ordinating, guiding and mentoring scrum teams
- At least 2 years relevant experience working in a commercial environment.
- Ability to stretch and further develop the Scrum set up for the team to the next level
- Strong communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships
- Capable of identifying and challenging the effectiveness of existing processes; of proposing improvements; and of achieving buy-in from stakeholders.
- Strong documentation skills
- Ability to work at a detailed level across complex business processes.
- A positive and enthusiastic outlook
Desirable Technical Skills
- Scrum Master qualifications.
- Good knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
- Project management and Prince 2 experience.
- Risk management.
- Experience of Change and Issue management processes.
- Experience using Azure Devops server, Jira, Confluence or other similar tooling.
- Working in the financial services industry or other regulated environment
Scrum Master – Responsibilities
- Run scrums and manage project deliverables / allocate tasks
- Act as Scrum Master facilitating development delivery through Agile methodologies, with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements and sprint demos with the assistance of Product Owners.
- Work in close collaboration with the various product owners, system owners and development team; support the Product Owners with emphasis on maintaining and processing the product backlog.
- Guide the Development team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and ensure they are adhered to.
- Facilitate impediments / blockers and guide the team to remove them.
- Produce and maintain relevant metrics that help the scrum teams measure their performance, providing MI detailing the progress on development and delivery.
- Facilitate the IT business change process, ensuring design and delivery follows the process and identifying improvements to how things can be done
This is an exciting opportunity, please contact Elaine for further details regards the client and role including the great culture, working environment and excellent benefits package. Please note that you are required to be based in or commutable to the Leeds area for working in their offices on a hybrid basis c twice a week.
