Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Agile Coach/Scrum Master – HIRING ASAP

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 11 Months
Location: 1 week in Galway office, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €550 - €600 per day

• As a Scrum Master/Delivery Lead you will need to blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for constant improvement and Delivery Excellence.
• In partnership with the Squad Leader and Chapter Leaders you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments, and lead agile events with a view to leading the team to quality deliverables.
• You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling ceremonies and activities as you manage inter-dependencies across squads and product areas.
• You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to realise their full potential.
• This role often requires coordinating the efforts of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
• Working collaboratively with Workplace Investing product partners and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad\'s mission through well-executed sprints.

• Previous dedicated Scrum Master experience on Software development teams is essential.
• Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency, and delivery by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve maturity and metrics.
• Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners.
• Manage and remediate team blockers, dependencies, and risks.
• Manage release plans of deliverables against milestones, capacity and delivering Business value, managing expectations with proper escalation, informing key stakeholders using appropriate reporting.
• Managing, coordinating logistics for, and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrums)
• Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, MS Teams, Miro)
• Organising and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences, including both technical and non-technical individuals
• Working closely with the squad leader and development chapter leader to plan and execute on the highest priority work as per the product roadmap.
• Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Coaching and mentoring complex squads, regardless of size.
• Participating in a community of practice and providing scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.
• Experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices which lead to timely delivery of quality products,
• Experience working with software development teams,
• Experience of managing project deliverables, managing delivery dates and progress
• Advanced Jira experience and knowledge of agile practices
• Bachelor's degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent required,
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required,
• You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills, can rapidly build trust, and positively influence others at all levels of the organisation,
• You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach,
• You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery.
• You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.