Scrum Master - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Ronald James Group

Ronald James Group

Verified Company

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Ronald James Group

An exciting opportunity to join a company within the online gaming sector who are becoming a global leader.

You will be a visible leader as a scrum master, ensuring projects are effectively developed, integrated, and deployed with high quality and on time.

This company has a really fun work culture and provides an amazing benefits package including flexible working, team events and many more.

Some of the responsibilities:

Fulfil the role of the Scrum Master within a dedicated team using Agile practices

Supervise and facilitate teams in all Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and daily stand ups

Responsible for creatively removing impediments from the Scrum team so they can continue to perform at their best

Create, maintain and deliver on project and work stream plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing understanding and needs

Identify and manage the risks associated with projects to achieve project success

Ensure that the Definition of Done is being followed by the team

Support and educate the Product Owner on refining the product backlog and make them ready for upcoming sprints, enabling longer-term work visibility for reporting to delivery and management teams

Demonstrate ability to influence Product Development and Management teams to improve product features and supportability of a product offering by identifying problems and suggesting and/or driving the implementation of fixes or features.

Measure team sprint success by using standard sprint metrics and drive team efficiency and productivity improvement through data points

Some of the requirements:

Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master/Product Owner (CSM,CSPO, SAFe) or equivalent professional qualification

Broad experience of working in a variety of Agile environments of different maturities.

Exposure to large scale Agile delivery across multiple teams and geographies and the recognition that this is sometime achieved best with flexible working

Experience in the use of at least one tool for managing agile delivery (training and support with use of JIRA and Confluence available)

Understanding of Software development processes and procedures

Understanding of change management and release processes

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of competency using Scrum practices.

Some of the benefits:

Remote/Flexible Working

Quarterly team events

Birthday Holiday

Generous Holiday Allowance

Tech Loan Scheme

Performance bonus & profit share scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Travel Loan scheme

Supplies of fresh fruits, cereals, biscuits, nibbles, etc. in the offices

Friday-evening beers

Relevant training and training budge