Scrum Master (SC Cleared)

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Scrum Master (SC Cleared), Agile Certified, Agile Coach, Scrum Coach, SC Clearance, DV Cleared, DV Clearance, Central Government, Public Sector, Sprint Ceremonies, User Stories, Estimating, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Daily Stand Ups, Roadmap, Product Owner

This specialist will be an experienced Scrum Master who has worked with a mixture of different team sizes and types. They must understand the underlying principles of Scrum and be able to work with different types of people and continually strive to improve their team's efficiency and productivity.

Day to day the specialist will work with the Agile Delivery Teams and the Business, managing and running Sprint ceremonies including daily stand ups, planinng meetings, showcases and retrospectives. Working with the Business to ensure that the work has been adequately prioritised and has specific businesss benefit. The roles includes supporting the Product Owner to maintain a product delivery roadmap that identifies deliverables, dependencies and milestones.

Our client Scrum Masters to help deliver multiple Agile projects within the Digital Services Programme which are deployed upon a secure cloud environment running a distributed big data platform.

Key Skills / Experience

* At least two years' experience in the use of Agile methodologies.

* Run Sprint ceremonies including daily stand ups, planning meetings, showcases and retrospectives

* Light-touch leadership that employs a highly collaborative approach to guide people without controlling them but employing authority when the situation requires.

* Facilitating inclusive decision-making and conflict resolution.

* Knowledge or experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, estimating, TDD, continuous integration, pairing, automated testing.

* Guiding and mentoring skills that demonstrate the Agile values and principles.

* Remove impediments that are preventing the team from delivery

* Growing and facilitating highly motivated and capable teams to deliver innovative software products, as well as less experienced teams.

* Experience of working on digital by default service standard compliant government website

* A highly developed understanding of government organisations, and how to operate and communicate at the varying levels of management

* Will have a background in Technology with proven success in a complex programmes