……… Candidate must have valid visa to work in Ireland (Stamp 1G/Stamp 4/EU Passport)…………
Location: Dublin (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Scrum Master - Centre of Excellence
Sector and sub-sector: Information Technology (IT)
What can you expect?
The Dublin-based client is an innovative R&D tech hub that delivers industry-leading digital solutions for its clients and colleagues. Being part of the 'IC' means you will get the chance to work on cutting-edge initiatives.
The Scrum Master will drive the COE engineering teams' deliveries via Agile methodologies to further enhance output and efficiency. This is a great opportunity to be an early contributor to agile developed solutions that will be used by many technical teams across a large organization. The role will involve some aspects of traditional project management. This role will report into the Development COE Principle Engineer.
What you will be rewarded with:
* Competitive salary with annual review
* Up to 12% pension contribution
* Healthcare cover
* Study Support
* Flexible working arrangements
* Sports & Social clubs/Wellness Programme
* Paid annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave days
* Travel ticket/bike to work/dental are optional
* Subsidised canteen
* 35 hour working week
We will count on you to:
- Mentor and coach teams to become self-organising scrum teams.
- Drive continuous improvement through the application of agile techniques.
- Drive a scrum-of-scrums to scale agile development across connected teams.
- Make decisions that lead to delivery success, and work with stakeholders to help the team prioritize and groom backlogs.
- Build and sustain team culture.
- Manage relationships with Product Owner and fend off "feature creep" and other project hazards.
- Develop and present Agile metrics on progress.
- Be a lifelong learner with an appetite for improving your craft, introducing change, and collaborating with like-minded colleagues.
- Communicates with stakeholders to provide timely and accurate information and status updates
- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how areas of IT project leadership collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
- Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through responsibility for delivery of end results and shared responsibility for budget management; accountable for resource planning.
- Ensures essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining standards.
- Manage communications, project escalations and program/projects risks.
What you need to have:
- 5+ years scrum master experience in software delivery.
- Proven experience applying agile in a Continuous Delivery environment.
- Able to host agile ceremonies and be disciplined in their scheduling and execution.
- Drives continuous improvement through retrospectives.
- Escalation point for the team, and owns issues until resolution.
- Comfortable communicating to senior stakeholders on the status of the project and its RAID.
- The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator and has experience working in a cross-functional environment.
- Comfortable working with charts, including Gantt charts, as communication tools.
- Able to work collaboratively with peers from all divisions across MMC, able to lead discussions, build consensus and encourage adoption.
- Ability to learn work and work through established MMC practices and processes.
What makes you stand out:
- Experience with teams working in contemporary application development stacks including MEAN, MERN, and other emerging open source technologies.
- Relevant certification in agile practices.
- Broad experience of agile tools including JIRA and ADO.
- Experience managing agile teams delivering to technical stakeholders rather than business stakeholders.
- Strong desire to develop and apply best practices in Agile, including coaching teams in Agile adoption.
……… Candidate must have valid visa to work in Ireland (Stamp 1G/Stamp 4/EU Passport)…………
