Head of Scrum
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as a servant leader, guiding and coaching multiple Agile development teams to embrace and follow Scrum principles and practices.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Remove impediments and obstacles that hinder the team's progress and help them become self-organizing.
- Ensure that Agile teams adhere to Agile/Scrum best practices and principles while customising processes to suit team needs.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by helping the team identify areas for enhancement and facilitating retrospectives.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to manage the product backlog, prioritise user stories, and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Foster open communication and collaboration between team members, product owners, and stakeholders.
- Educate team members and stakeholders on Agile principles and processes, ensuring a shared understanding of Agile values.
- Monitor and report on team progress, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to management and stakeholders.
- Actively seek opportunities to expand Agile and Scrum knowledge and promote Agile best practices within the organisation.
- To be responsible for the line management of Scrum Masters and Business Analysts in your team and to formulate personal development plans to ensure a structured career progression
- Document scrum processes and ways of working and ensure that such documentation is kept up to date and relevant
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification is strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and their application.
- Experience with leading people and line management
- Strong understanding of the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework
- An understand of User Centred Design and how this practice integrates with software engineering
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Results-driven with a focus on delivering value to customers.
- Experience working with distributed or remote teams is a plus.
- Excellent working knowledge of Jira/Confluence including the setting up and administration of projects, workflows and Kanban boards
- Must be eligible for Security Clearance or higher
- Leadership: Must exhibit strong leadership qualities to lead the team effectively.
- Collaborator: The ability to understand, support and share the feelings of the team and stakeholders.
- Strong communication: Effective communication skills to manage the team and to liaise with stakeholders.
- Problem-solving: Ability to facilitate discussions, enable decision-making processes, and conflict resolution.
- Adaptability: Comfortable with change, able to respond to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
- Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
- 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
- A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
- A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
- All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
- All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks.
- Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.