Scrum Master
Posted 15/05/2024 by Systems Engineering & Assessment (SEA)
Scrum Master
Bristol, Barnstaple or Beckington (with a mix of office and home-based working)
Up to £70K DOE + Benefits
We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
Join us.
In this position you will play a vital role in facilitating the growth of our agile development process, ensuring efficient and effective delivery of our projects. You will be responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of software within different departments and projects.
Your primary focus will be on ensuring the timely and high-quality development, testing, and deployment of software solutions. You will be a proactive problem solver and guide the development team into delivering high spec software while not being afraid to be hands on where required. You will also be adept at coaching and mentoring our teams to support us on our Agile journey.
What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance:
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing: - Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal - online and instore discounts, travel savings etc
- Canada Life GP and financial advice
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources: - Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
- Lead regular sprint cadence (incl. key sprint ceremonies such as sprint planning, review, retrospective, daily huddles and daily team check-ins), ensuring necessary scheduling, attendance, facilitation and team participation.
- Coach team members in effective use of Agile ways of working and drive continuous improvement of Agile adoption/maturity, ensuring improved visibility of work, utilization of appropriate tools and ultimately Spring progress.
- Support the Product Owner / Project Manager to prioritize and maximise value/outcomes delivered by the team.
- Track the team's overall productivity / effectiveness and other metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes) on an ongoing basis.
- Facilitate process of deciding which stories will be included in each sprint through understanding team's velocity and story scope / size, and support team members to define and allocate which stories they will work on.
- Facilitate process of working with product owner and team to re-balance and re-prioritise work within a sprint.
- Protect team from distractions and interruptions by people outside the team.
- Strong background from Complex System Engineering, project management or development.
- Strong experience in a Systems Engineering led, product development company.
- Have a proven track record in successful Agile project management of software for an Engineering complex product or system.
- Strong background and experience Agile / Scrum Management of Software Projects
- Strong background experience in complex product development.
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 300 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Advisor Ethan a call on 01373 (phone number removed).
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- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- 15/05/2024
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 0195
- Job ID:
- 221654843
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