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Senior Scrum Master
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
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Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Scrum Master
NEC Software Solutions
• Coach teams and leaders to embed Agile values, principles, and ways of working in day-to-day delivery and decision-making. • Enable teams to run their own events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. • Facilitate high-performing, self-managing teams by fostering psychological safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Identify team dynamics, systemic impediments, and organisational constraints, coaching others to address root causes effectively to enable self-managing teams. • Analyse systems of work and promote a culture of continuous improvement by helping the team and organisation identify areas for enhancement. • To collaborate with teams to establish methods to manage product backlogs which align with product and business goals. • Foster open communication and collaboration between team members, product owners, and stakeholders. • Educate team members and stakeholders on Agile principles and processes, ensuring a shared understanding of Agile values. • Monitor and report on team progress, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to management and stakeholders and to also establish an evidence based, data approach to provide insights for team improvement • Actively seek opportunities to expand Agile and Scrum knowledge and promote Agile best practices within the organisation. • To be responsible for the line management of Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and Product Owners in your team and to formulate personal development plans to ensure a structured career progression. • Document scrum processes and ways of working and ensure that such documentation is kept up to date and relevant. • Establish a community of practice(s) to encourage knowledge sharing and problem solving across teams. • Support leadership to create a framework for product development to flourish across digital studio, encompassing Product Management, software engineering and User Centred Design. • Use a range of coaching techniques, facilitation methods, and feedback models to unlock team and organisational performance • Adapt a coaching and mentoring style to suit different levels of Agile maturity, team contexts, and leadership needs. • Influence leaders and stakeholders at all levels to enable cultural change, agility, and outcome-focused delivery. • Promote a learning culture through experimentation, reflective practice, and evidence-based improvement.
Job Requirements
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification is strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and their application.
- Strong understanding of the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework
- An understand of User Centred Design and how this practice integrates with software engineering
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Results-driven with a focus on delivering value to customers.
- Experience working with distributed or remote teams is a plus.
- Excellent working knowledge of Jira/Confluence including the setting up and administration of projects, workflows and Kanban boards
- Must be eligible for Security Clearance or higher.
Benefits
- Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
- 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
- A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
- A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
- All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.
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