Agile Coach/Scrum Master – HIRING ASAP
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 11 Months
Location: 1 week in Galway office, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €550 - €600 per day
Responsibilities
* As a Scrum Master/Delivery Lead you will need to blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for constant improvement and Delivery Excellence.
* In partnership with the Squad Leader and Chapter Leaders you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments, and lead agile events with a view to leading the team to quality deliverables.
* You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling ceremonies and activities as you manage inter-dependencies across squads and product areas.
* You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to realise their full potential.
* This role often requires coordinating the efforts of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
* Working collaboratively with Workplace Investing product partners and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints.
Key Skills
* Previous dedicated Scrum Master experience on Software development teams is essential.
* Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency, and delivery by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve maturity and metrics.
* Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners.
* Manage and remediate team blockers, dependencies, and risks.
* Manage release plans of deliverables against milestones, capacity and delivering Business value, managing expectations with proper escalation, informing key stakeholders using appropriate reporting.
* Managing, coordinating logistics for, and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrums)
* Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, MS Teams, Miro)
* Organising and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences, including both technical and non-technical individuals
* Working closely with the squad leader and development chapter leader to plan and execute on the highest priority work as per the product roadmap.
* Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
* Coaching and mentoring complex squads, regardless of size.
* Participating in a community of practice and providing scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.
* Experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices which lead to timely delivery of quality products,
* Experience working with software development teams,
* Experience of managing project deliverables, managing delivery dates and progress
* Advanced Jira experience and knowledge of agile practices
* Bachelor's degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent required,
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required,
* You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills, can rapidly build trust, and positively influence others at all levels of the organisation,
* You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach,
* You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery.
* You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.