My client is seeking a Scrum Master looking for a new challenge and step up in their career. As a Scrum Master, you will be required to facilitate all aspects of the agile framework, including sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, iteration reviews and iteration retrospectives. You will also coach and influence at all levels to drive increased agility, velocity, predictably, innovation and quality. Your role will be instrumental in driving an agile methodology using scalable agile methods and tools to enable teams to rapidly deliver functionality that drives customer satisfaction.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the team to be accountable for the commitments they make
• Facilitate the definition of sprint goals and deliverables
• Maintains the Scrum team capacity plan, team board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts
• Identifies and helps remove impediments to the success of the Sprint
• Identifies and communicates potential risks to the completion of the Sprints, including people, costs, and systems. Recommends appropriate solutions
• Directs appropriate and timely communication with all department managers and customers throughout the life of the sprints
• Protects the Scrum framework from improper modification by the Scrum team
• Proactively manage project risks and issues providing appropriate issues escalation to the necessary levels
• Track metrics on sprint progress
• Foster transparency and visibility, need to ensure that a team’s progress, obstacles and successes are
• highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself
• Ensure and foster a collaborative culture within the team (instead of the traditional command and control activities)
• Drive the team to improve their engineering practices and tools so that each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
• Shield the team from external interference
• Develops and maintains expertise in the application and use of systems, tools, and processes within the department's scope

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or combination of relevant skills and education
• Scrum master with at least two years of experience
• Experience driving continuous process improvement
• Excellent coaching and leadership skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Planning, organisation and decision-making skills
• Proven experience in risk management
• Experience working with Azure DevOps desired
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and concepts
• Displays strong communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and team building skills.
• Experience working in a scaled agile framework preferred.
• Understanding of SDLC and software development processes
• Agile or Scrum master certification such as CSM, PSM I, SAFe 4.0 Scrum Master, PMI – ACP
If you are happy to be represented by Solas and be put forward for this role (or would like more information) please email me with your CV via the link, indicating if wish to be represented by Solas. Alternatively please call me (T: 00 353 1 2449516)

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