Agile (Scrum Master)

Location Warwickshire
Discipline: Project Engineer/ Manager, Professional
Job type: Contract
Salary: £31.69 PH UMBRELLA
Contact name: Laura Hopson

Contact email: lhopson@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 38756
Published: 16 days ago
Duration: 12 Months
Expiry date: 07 Apr 2023 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

​Position Description:

  • Understanding and/or experience of scrum / agile ways of working methodologies, focused on key concepts; working in cross functional self-organising team, coaching teams to enable delivery of incremental value in short feedback loops. Communication

  • Must be able to engage within the cross functional agile teams at all levels in the business.

  • Good written IT skills and ability to facilitate administration of the Jira system. Agnostic

  • Must be able to work within the self-organising team as an empowered representative of the chapter.

  • Comfortable to work within a lean hierarchy, operating at consistent work rate enabling the team to deliver.

Skills Required:

  • Understanding of agile principles, value and the key roles is desirable.

  • An understanding of how this differs from waterfall. Having knowledge of a Product Delivery system is beneficial.

Skills Preferred:  

  • Use of Agile toolset is an advantage - Confluence, Jira & Lucid Spark are widely used within our squads to prepare plan and execute our engineering sprints within Vehicle programmes.

  • As a Scrum Master you will have responsibility to support the squad in preparation for the sprints and ensure any task that not completing on time have obstacles raised.

Experience Preferred:

  • Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred.

  • Experience of working in an Agile Methology, Source control, either TFS or GIT, and some CI experience preferably Jenkins.

  • An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style Understanding of agile principles ,value and the key roles is desirable.

  • An understanding of how this differs from waterfall. Having knowledge of a Product Delivery system is beneficial.

Education Required:  

  • Ideally qualified to degree level - with the capability of learning fast and organising a Squad of 10 colleagues to deliver tasks within a sprint.

  • It would be an advantage to have worked in an Agile environment before and to have experience in the Scrum master role.

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