Scrum Master - London, United Kingdom - Lorien

Lorien
Lorien
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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**Experience - 3 + years
Hybrid - 2 days a week in office

Required Experience - Coaching Product Owners**We are looking for a Scrum Master to join the digital transformation team within the Insurance sector where you will focus on delivering new and enhanced technology solutions to support and enable the Reinsurance business globally.


Key Responsibilities

  • Working with the Delivery Lead, to support the delivery of digital initiatives which contribute to the strategy and growth priorities
  • Coaching the scrum team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices mentoring staff on the new ways of working as required, and ultimately owning the process to deliver value to business customers
  • Supporting, educating and coaching Product Owners, especially on prioritisation, backlog creation, backlog refinement and their role in the Scrum team
  • Plan, organise and facilitate the relevant Agile Ceremonies as required e.g. Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective.
  • Support the preparation of the 90/30 day events such as quarterly planning and portfolio reviews
  • Ensure agile anti patterns are raised and discouraged
  • Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation by coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation
  • Removing impediments or guiding the team on how to remove impediments
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and socialising information to the wider team
  • Working with other teams to help ensure the new way of working is understood and integrated with otherprocesses/reporting as needed

Skills and Experience

  • Experience coaching Product Owners
  • Proven delivery capability, supported by specific examples
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
  • Knowledge of various welldocumented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach e.g. Burndown reporting, Retrospective formats, handling bugs in the Product Backlog
  • A clear understanding of the difference between Epics, Features and User Stories
  • Knowledge of different Agile approaches: Kanban, Lean etc. and Agile tools e.g. JIRA
  • Awareness and experience with widely used Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
  • Applicable knowledge of the development technologies used by Agile development teams
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills
  • A relevant certification in Agile e.g. Certified ScrumMaster or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner


Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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