Scrum Master - Swansea, United Kingdom - cloudThing

cloudThing

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Swansea, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Scrum Master

Salary:
Competitive depending upon experience + benefits

Where the job is based:
hybrid, home-based 3 days a week, working on customer site in Swansea Wed/Thurs every week + expenses paid

Who we are:

Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients.

Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values.

Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations.

We encourage all our teams to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more.

We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our teams are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India.

We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking, highly skilled and experienced individuals.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

Who we are looking for:

The agile delivery team enabler capable of building effective teams by unlocking what will work for the team rather than just policing agile processes.

Highly effective at building relationships with teams and with people too, actively removing impediments and reducing waste to increase team alignment and autonomy.

A true servant-leader, coaching individuals, teams and customers in adopting agile working practices and increasing effectiveness to take ownership and accountability for their work.

Required Experience:

Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business
Creating and maintaining the environment in which the agile delivery will succeed
Working with on/offshore development/implementation teams
Living the eight stances of a Scrum Master
Upholding the principles of the Manifesto of Agile Software Development.
Educating teams in agile ways of working with excellent facilitation skills
Using a range of agile frameworks and methodologies and not adopting a "one size fits all" approach
Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell), working alongside our project managers and delivery managers
Working with a continuous improvement mindset to articulate what better looks like
Software, Digital or Business Scrum Mastery holding relevant certifications to back up your indepth experience
Disciplined Agile Scrum Master / Senior Scrum Master / Coach is desirable
Excellent written and presentation skills, the ability to think on feet and make decisions
Other tasks as reasonably requested

We're also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
- ability to understand and drive deliverables within the Scrum team,
- ability to work closely with a Product Owner on priorities and backlog refinement
- ability to run stand-ups, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives, show and tells, and guide others to do so
- ability to closely with other Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Solution and Software Architects to ensure cross team co-ordination,
- ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:
We're a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee's:

Real Flexibility
we're a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
Awesome Environment all of our employee's will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on that's in large part because we're privately owned by those that work daytoday in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
Interesting Work these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include worki