Scrum Master
- Jacobs
- Manchester, Lancashire
- Feb 01, 2022
Full time
Information Technology
Telecommunications
Job Description
We are looking for talented Scrum Master / Agile Coach to help us build Jacobs next generation Products/Applications. We are seeking people with a strong Agile delivery background, and a strong technical understanding of product, application, infrastructure and DevOps, across a range of agile delivery frameworks.
In this role you will oversee and guide teams within a wider programme of work. Your responsibilities include ensuring that product and development teams follow Agile values and practices, mentoring and motivating us to improve processes, define KPIs and continually coach to a higher Agile maturity level. Facilitating Agile ceremonies, meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating impediments. You will be an evangelist for Agile, excited to join our journey.
To be successful in this role, you should have a firm grasp of Agile practices and have experience leading development teams using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. You will also be able to collaborate to manage dependencies and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
We want you to have unlimited learning opportunities and space for growth in order for you to work towards the next stage of your career.
Why Jacobs?
Recognised throughout industry as a benchmark of good practice our Graduate Development Programme offers a structured approach to Continuous Professional Development. You'll benefit from learning that complements chartership progression that will provide both the technical and business acumen you require to create your future.
Our Culture
We're invested in you and your success. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.
We aim to make inclusion and diversity core attributes of our identity, embedded in all our employment and business practices in all locations. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
Successful candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard Pre-Employment check and will be required to undergo various checks including: Identity, Right to Work; Employment/Education History and Criminal Record. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed or rejected.
In this role you will oversee and guide teams within a wider programme of work. Your responsibilities include ensuring that product and development teams follow Agile values and practices, mentoring and motivating us to improve processes, define KPIs and continually coach to a higher Agile maturity level. Facilitating Agile ceremonies, meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating impediments. You will be an evangelist for Agile, excited to join our journey.
To be successful in this role, you should have a firm grasp of Agile practices and have experience leading development teams using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. You will also be able to collaborate to manage dependencies and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
- Solid experience in a Scrum Master/Team Coach role
- In-depth knowledge and experience implementing one (or more) Agile methodologies (such as SAFe, Scrum or Kanban), with experience from inception to outcomes
- Comfort with technical (software and data led) products
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Demonstrable experience coaching teams and improving the way they work, implementing best practices and improvements by retrospection
- Increasing transparency of teams work and sharing team successes, best practices, risks, issues and ensuring items are timeboxed as appropriate
- Working with metrics to identify improvements at the team and organisation level
- Work with the Product Managers to drive effective KPIs
- Highly effective relationship management skills, with the ability to find ways of resolving blockers and impediments
- A good understanding of team dynamics and how people respond to change; ability to articulate the agile mindset shift in practical and real terms to people, experience with frameworks such as DISc is advantageous
- Hunger to learn, self-motivation and ability to stay focused in fast paced environment. Be prepared to get involved.
- Be a mentor. Keen sense of developing, building and mentoring people through difficult situations and contexts
- Agile certifications are advantageous, particularly in Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery, KanBan, Lead Systems Development and XP
- Knowledge of the engineering sector is a bonus, but by no means essential; you'll be a Digital and Agile evangelist first and foremost
We want you to have unlimited learning opportunities and space for growth in order for you to work towards the next stage of your career.
Why Jacobs?
Recognised throughout industry as a benchmark of good practice our Graduate Development Programme offers a structured approach to Continuous Professional Development. You'll benefit from learning that complements chartership progression that will provide both the technical and business acumen you require to create your future.
Our Culture
We're invested in you and your success. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.
We aim to make inclusion and diversity core attributes of our identity, embedded in all our employment and business practices in all locations. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
Successful candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard Pre-Employment check and will be required to undergo various checks including: Identity, Right to Work; Employment/Education History and Criminal Record. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed or rejected.
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