Job Description

Salary 50,000 to 55,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) + excellent benefits.

Job Purpose:

Work with and inspire the team to enable continuous delivery of working and valuable software into production in an Agile development model.

Working location:

The role is based in the Milton Keynes office. The role can be fulfilled via a hybrid arrangement of 3 days in the office each week.

Key Responsibilities:

In line with the SIS Values, the main responsibilities of the role are set out below.

Trusted Delivery:

Coach the development team and product owners on effective user story writing utilising a range of techniques such as impact mapping, story mapping, etc. Work with Business analyst and product owners to help them define and share product vision with the development team, thus ensuring that everybody is aligned and works towards a common goal. Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies with a focus on collaboration and empowering people, as opposed to just doing administrative tasks around the ceremonies and JIRA. Represent the scrum team in discussion with Project Manager and senior management around delivery plans. Work with other stakeholders in the project in managing planning of software changes to production and represent the technical team in Change authorization meetings Shield the team from distractions. Remove impediments. Follow through with retrospective actions. Continuously review progress against the benchmarks (agile health reports). Remove any barriers within the teams, thus enabling a close cooperation across all roles and functions that surround the team.

Better Together:

Develop and build effective relationships with customers and stakeholders Support the wider business initiatives for growth Ensure regular and clear communications (written/verbal) within SIS Development, business customers and other project stakeholders at all seniority levels Maintain a cohesive team relationship and manage discipline when needed

Inspiring Enthusiasm:

Identify new ideas and processes for Better Business Committed to continuous personal development Articulates a vision that generates excitement, enthusiasm and commitment

Focused Innovation:

Ensure that the best interests of SIS are always upheld Provide high quality and timely delivery of duties Operate within the legal and regulatory framework

Skills and Experience:

Certified Scrum Master or equivalent work experience. Experience of working in the enterprise environment with dozens of interdependent software systems. Effective stakeholder management. Ability to influence others to achieve a common goal. Experience of implementing Agile on large scale (SAFe, Less). Advanced JIRA user (workflows, schemes, fields, etc). Outstanding negotiation, facilitation, and coaching skills. Skilled in refinement, estimation, story splitting, retrospection, velocity, and other Scrum techniques. * Expert knowledge of Agile frameworks or methods, like Scrum or Kanban. You must understand relevant software development life cycle models. It also requires an in-depth understanding of traditional project management practices and principles.