Senior Scrum Master

Senior Scrum Master Salary – £70,000 - £82,000 pa + Bonus Hybrid
- Swindon or London

Accountable to Scrum/Kanban Team, Agile Team’s Scrum Masters Agile Lead Responsible for:
Championing delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier via improving Ways of Working (WoW) inside Scrum and/or Lean Agile (Kanban) teams, and contributing to such efforts across the wider organisation (both Pay Tech and wider Edenred).

You will be a self-learner who rapidly expands their knowledge of Lean, Agile, business, leadership, and other practices, frameworks, and techniques. It is likely that you attend Agile meetups either inside or outside the company, and share ideas and learning with your peers.

You will be confident in presenting ideas to a diverse audience at meetup style events.

You will have a level 1 qualification in Agile such as PSM1, CSM, DASM, KMP, or ICP. Ideally you should have achieved a level 2 / advanced qualification in Agile. Additional qualifications in Lean, leadership, and Emotional Intelligence are highly relevant.

Your background and experience is of paramount importance to help teams adopt an holistic view of software engineering. You may come from a computer science, pure science, business, military, or any other background. The key is being able to demonstrate knowledge of, and application of agility in practice & context with those whom you work with.

You will have extensive experience of working in an Agile iterative and/or incremental environment regularly solving problems and delivering value to customers. This does not need to be a software delivery environment, however the nature of our work means that knowledge of various Software Delivery Life cycles is advantageous.

You will practice the 8 stances of the Scrum Master, and will be able to shift your approach according to needs of the team.

Working relationships Agile Team Product Owner & Product Manager Development & QA Managers Operations & Service Business stakeholders Leaders across Pay Tech and Payment Solutions Cross-collaboration with other teams via other Scrum Masters

Key result areas Establishes Sprint Goals and enables team to focus upon, and achieve these. Ensures that Sprint Goals are aligned to quarterly team-level Programme Increments and associated value definitions. Assists in establishing department-wide Goals. Embeds good Lean and Agile practices, and associated Ways of Working (WoW) at team and department levels, and influences the Engineering, Infrastructure, Operations, and Product departments via wider conversations, for example through our Agile Community of Practice.

Discovers and commits Objectives and Key Results at the team level to measure success of WoW changes; uses metrics-as-feedback (eg: via LinearB) to establish a culture of evidence-based continuous improvement.

Coaches and influences the Scrum Team towards improving WoW while taking into account, and balancing all aspects of Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. Takes leadership, coaching, and mentoring stances with other Scrum Masters to accelerate individual and collective learning and WoW improvements inside the Agile Team. Proactively identifies, triages, unblocks, and escalates impediments impacting the Scrum Team. Establishes a culture of preventing impediments from occurring in preference to mitigating after-the-event.

Key tasks Personal development in Agile methods, practices, and frameworks. Performs the role of Scrum Master (or equivalent in Lean Agile) across up to two teams. Adopts appropriate Agile frameworks, methods and techniques tailored to the context of the team. Evolves established Agile frameworks, methods and techniques to create new opportunities for agility in Pay Tech. Recommends, and helps implement, descaling approaches as well as Agile scaling to achieve business Goals, via the simplification of value delivery.

Undertakes continuous/regular improvements via retrospective techniques of inspection and adaption, agrees measurements and tracks progress towards improvement. Undertakes Agile Planning techniques focused on incremental delivery of customer value with team, Product Owner, Product Manager and other valued stakeholders.

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