Scrum Master - Crawley, United Kingdom - Thales

Thales

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Crawley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales.

Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other.

In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer.

We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Scrum Master

Crawley

Our Opportunity:

The Scrum Master is a role within the UK Digital Operations Team that forms part of the growing data and digital transformation organisation focusing on delivering the vision of the Chief Data Officer.

The scrum master role is required to help enable the agile teams to drive positive business outcomes (Faster, Safer and Happier).

The scrum master will have a focus on 2-3 digital operations squads, helping enable delivery of data and digital products across Thales UK.

What the role has to offer:

Ensure that Scrum teams are working effectively towards business objectives being delivered with high quality standards
Confidently facilitate Scrum rituals (Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives) & workshops enabling teams to deliver value
Working closely with the Product Owner and the development team, help them create and maintain the product backlog, refine requirements and prioritise user stories
Ensuring the team understands Agile/Scrum principles and values
Ensuring the team adhere to the Scrum framework and maintain the JIRA Scrum board
Developing and nurturing group dynamics and fostering the selforganization Serving as a mirror to the team, reflecting agile values, reminding commitments, helping to improve
Act as a servant leader to several teams, leading by example
Motivate teams to succeed
Help to identify and remove impediments & blockers.
Protect teams from internal and external influencers
Assist in preventing & resolving conflict across teams
Assist with JIRA administration and training
Aid teams to effectively identify, plan and implement successful outcomes of work packages and projects
Ensure teams capture and present metrics (Velocity, Stories complete, sprint goals)
Assistin shaping the Organisations Agile journey

Principal Relationships:

Digital Ops Senior Scrum Master
UK Chief Data Officer
UK Data Value Manager
Digital Operations Solutions Partner
Development Squad
Functional Product Owner

About you:

A working knowledge of Agile and specifically the Scrum framework
Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication
Ability to confidently present and lead a group
Excellent skill level in common office tools (MS office suite etc).
Good all round knowledge of business structures and processes.
Broad IT Knowledge (IS strategy, infrastructure, architecture, security and service management)
Design to implementation methodologies, preferably gained through practical experience.
Familiarity of working within a DataOps/DevOps environment
Project management experience

What We Can Offer
We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best.

We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility**

Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in