Scrum Master

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Proteus Europe is searching for a Scrum Master for a 6 Month renewable contract role based in Luxembourg.

Languages: English - French is an asset

Our Client :-

- Present in Luxembourg for 20 years

- The second largest IT Consulting firm at country level

- A major player in the Financial and Public sectors

- Organized into 3 services lines: Infrastructure, Development and Testing

- Awarded - Best Workplace- 5 years in a row !

Your New role :-

Job Purpose:

A scrum master enables a scrum team to run a low-complexity agile development process that seamlessly aligns with business and technical needs. The Scrum Master is a key role within an Agile delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a teams pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business benefits for one or several lines of business

Key Accountabilities

Time Allocation and Detailed Description and Example(s) 35%

- Initiative delivery (independently - with the ongoing assistance and coaching from an Agile coach or Senior Scrum Master - for simple initiatives or assisting for complex products/initiatives):

- Facilitate low complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with our client Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning

- Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet LOB stakeholders needs and expectations

- Manage risks to delivery 35%

- Team activity facilitation: Facilitates (small team, low complexity product) or assist a senior scrum master with (larger teams, higher complexity) the following tasks:

- Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team

- Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies and simple team problem-solving, considering options and selecting solutions; escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary

- Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment

- Manage team performance to promote joint accountability for results and solve productivity issues

- Facilitating and engaging in business analysis, user experience and technical conversations across platforms

- Navigating and identifying shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives 30%

- Cross-functional

- Communication: Communicate cross functionally, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; Report team progress and accomplishment up and across;

- Facilitates status updates, product demos and retrospectives

Level of Responsibility and Decision Making

o Enables key management decisions required for the successful delivery of initiatives (including budget and resource allocation)

o Enables any decision required to ensure the agile management framework is thoroughly applied

o Improve Agile work practices to enhance team effectiveness and productivity within the Team

What types of recommendations does the job provide to others.

o Provides input into prioritization elements to be included in sprint scope

o Contribute ideas for improvement in processes and outcomes

Complexities and Risks

o Facilitates initiatives of small-to-medium size scale and complexity

o Works in a fast-paced environment requiring scrum master to frequently respond to and anticipate changes in plans and scope

o Accountable for producing outcomes with limited control over the resources executing the work

o Broad spectrum of soft skills required for success and requires a continuous pursuit of knowledge and practice

o Needs to adapt interpersonal style to highly diverse individuals and groups in a range of situations

o Inability to effectively play role will result in loss of business benefits commensurate to size of project

Key Relationships

Leadership Agile Program Director, Agile Engineering Director, Product Management

o To review delivery progress and challenges

o To escalate issues where required Platform / Function stakeholders

o To gather requirements and feedback

o To communicate progress and outcomes on an ongoing basis

o To coordinate activities with other (scrum) teams and manage external dependencies, including OCM and training Scrum Team Members

o To facilitate team activities

o To protect team members from external forces and distractions

o To coach scrum team members

Your Skills and Qualifications :-

Essential Skills :-

Capabilities and Skills

- 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master

- 3 years of experience in software development and/or project management and/or business (system) analysis

- Exposure to Project / Program delivery in Agile and/or Waterfall environment

- Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery - such as software development or business (system) analysis

- Ability to apply Agile Management Framework and well documented Agile techniques (User Stories, Burndown techniques, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous testing, etc.); SAFe experience is an asset

- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience

- Certified Agile Practitioner or equivalent

Professional Capabilities:

- Achievement Orientation (Level 3): Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent with the organizations standards

- Adaptability (Level 3): Adapting in order to work effectively in ambiguous or changing situations, and with diverse individuals and groups.

- Agile Framework and Practice (Level 4): Working within and implementing the principles of agile methodology.

- Agile Leadership (Level 3): Creating agile work environments through the implementation of the Agile Management Framework

- Continuous Learning (Level 4): Identifying and addressing learning and developmental needs to enhance own performance.

- Creativity and Innovation (Level 3): Generating viable, new approaches and solutions outside of normal boundaries.

- Impact and Influence (Level 3): Influencing and gaining others support.

- Interactive Communication (Level 4): Listening to others and communicating articulately, fostering open communication.

- Managing and Measuring Work (Level 2): Organizing time, work and resources (e.g. people) to accomplish work objectives effectively and efficiently; tracking progress toward accomplishing the work objectives.

- Problem Solving (Level 2): Identifying problems and the solutions to them.

- Relationship Building (Level 2): Establishing, sustaining and fostering professional contacts to build, enhance and connect networks for work purposes.

- Teamwork (Collaboration) (Level 3): Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.

- Visioning and Alignment (Level 2): Supporting, promoting and ensuring alignment with the organizations vision and values.

Technical Capabilities:

- Business Analysis (Level 2): Investigating and analyzing business situations, evaluating options for business improvements, elaborating and defining requirements and ensuring effective implementation in line with the business needs.

- Application Development, Support and Maintenance (Level 1):

Knowledge and ability to design, define, construct, enhance, support and maintain application software on one or more platforms including web

Proteus Europe operates in partnership with our candidates by building strong and lasting

relationships at all levels.

If you apply for this role, we will:

- Contact you within one week to discuss your current situation and suitability for this role.

- Keep searching for other suitable positions should this role not be right for you.

- Keep you informed at every stage of the recruitment process.

- Actively follow up with our client on your behalf to gain useful feedback throughout the

process.

If you are looking for a new role, but this role isn’t quite right for you, please contact us in

confidence for a discussion about how we can help you.