Experienced Scrum Master

We are looking for a passionate agile practitioner to join the iaptus product team as a scrum master. The iaptus product team is made up of a number of scrum teams, consisting of product owners, developers, designers, and scrum masters.

We work in adherence to agile values and principles, using the scrum framework to deliver value and drive continuous improvement. We see our scrum masters as servant-leaders that foster an environment for creativity and collaboration.

• Guiding the scrum team in using scrum and agile practices
• Coaching the scrum team in focusing on outcomes and value for the customer
• Removing impediments to the scrum team’s progress, allowing the team to focus on delivering their sprint goal
• Coaching and empowering teams to be self-managing and find a sustainable pace
• Building a shared understanding between developers and product owners around goals, scope and product domain
• Supporting the product owners in effective management of the product backlog and refinement of backlog items
• Supporting the product owners by facilitating and finding techniques for product planning
• Facilitating scrum events using timeboxes where appropriate
• Facilitating collaboration across the organisation and stakeholders
• Enabling creative problem solving and innovation
• Creating an environment which builds trust and transparency, and enables conflicts to be handled in a healthy way
• Working with other scrum masters to improve cross-team collaboration
• Leading, training and coaching the organisation in scrum implementation and agile practices.

• Have a positive and proactive attitude to problem solving
• Have excellent facilitation skills
• Are creative, curious and courageous
• Able to adapt to and drive change
• See yourself as a servant-leader for the team and wider organisation.

• You are experienced in scrum mastering a technical team
• You are experienced in coaching individuals and teams
• You have excellent communication and relationship building skills.

We use AI tools internally and externally as part of our work, we support our clients to use them thoughtfully, and we know many candidates will use them too. When used well, AI can be a helpful support to, but not a replacement for, human thinking, creativity or judgement.

We strongly encourage applicants to ensure their applications authentically reflect their own experience and capability. Our recruitment decisions are always made by people. We're interested in your skills, your curiosity, and how you approach problems.

If you choose to use AI tools for formatting or assistance, please use them ethically and responsibly, make it clear how and where you have used them, and take care to review and personalise your application accordingly.

We offer exciting opportunities to learn new skills and an excellent package of benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy and sell leave
• Life assurance at 4 x annual salary
• Private health insurance
• Pension - employer contribution of 6%
• Personal training and development budget
• Onsite gym, fresh fresh and lots of extra’s!
• Onsite parking with EV charging points
• Hybrid working

The position is for a full time member of our team, 37.5 hours, Monday – Friday.

Collaboration is one of our four company values - we work best together. We believe there is significant benefit from working face to face when doing so. At the same time, some work may be carried out just as effectively alone and away from the office. We have therefore created a flexible ‘place of work’ policy that asks everyone to be where the work of the day is best completed and overall spend enough time in the office…