Senior Scrum Master Job in Greater London | Salt Recruitment UK

The Senior Scrum Master is responsible for the Agile Scrum process adopted by one or more Agile software development teams in the design and delivery of software supporting specific business areas e.g. Revenue, Online, and Corporate Applications.

The role holder is a subject matter expert in Agile Scrum and provides guidance and mentoring in Agile techniques and processes within one or more Agile team in order to encourage collaboration and maximise productivity of those teams.

Key Responsibilities

* Act as subject matter expert and mentor to the Agile Development Team in the adoption of Agile processes and techniques ensuring consistent adoption of Agile techniques within Technology Development .

* Facilitate in behaviours and processes that increases the productivity of the team. Facilitating the removal of day to day impediments to the team’s progress in order to maximise efficiency.

* Organising and facilitating agile events, such as daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews for the Scrum Team.

* Reporting of accurate agile metrics, such as burn-down and velocity to the Systems Analyst for the purposes of long-term forecasting and short-term monitoring.

* Coaching Agile team members in adopting and using Agile processes and techniques. Specifically techniques and processes promoting continuous improvement.

* Coaching the Agile team and stakeholders to understand and enact the agile process and empirical product development to facilitate the adoption and improvement of the Agile process.

Experience

Candidates should have worked as a senior scrum master on large scale ideally public sector programmes of work and have

experience with tooling and technology that support all aspects of the software development lifecycle in an agile environment including

· Azure DevOps Boards for Backlog and Management

· Azure DevOps Analytics and Reporting