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Scrum Master
Hybrid - Swindon or London
Salary - £35,000 to £45,000 + Bonus
Accountable to
Agile/Scrum Team, other Scrum Masters.
Reports to Senior Scrum Master .
Responsible for
This junior role is responsible equally for developing their personal Agile abilities, and championing Ways of Working (WoW) inside a Scrum team in Edenred PayTech. This, to enable the completion of Sprint Goals to deliver incremental customer value.
You will be a self-learner who rapidly expands their knowledge of Agile practices, frameworks, and techniques.
You will be mentored by an experienced Senior Scrum Master, and hence this is an ideal position for someone looking to develop an Agile career. You will ideally have a level 1 qualification in Agile such as PSM1, CSM, DASM, KMP, or ICP. However, enthusiasm and practical experience of developing a team is more important than certification. Hence, applications from candidates without formal Agile certification will be considered. Full training will be provided.
You will ideally have experience of working in an Agile iterative and/or incremental environment regularly solving problems and delivering value to customers. This does not need to be a software delivery environment, however the nature of our work means that knowledge of various Software Delivery Lifecycles is advantageous.
You will practice the 8 stances of the Scrum Master, initially focused on Servant Leadership.
Working relationships
Agile community of Scrum Masters
Other Scrum & Kanban teams
Product Owner & Product Manager
Business stakeholders
Key result areas
- Personal development in Agile methods, practices, and frameworks.
- Coaches and influences the Scrum Team in all areas of Scrum, such as defining and delivering sprint goals via sprint planning, review, and retrospective, cross-team collaboration, and dependency mitigation.
- Proactively unblocks impediments impacting the Scrum Team.
- Assists the Scrum Team in discovering and articulating Objectives and Key Results at the team level, aligned to Edenred PayTech OKRs.
- Applies appropriate Agile Metrics to act as rapid feedback to the team.
- Participates with wider Agile Team of Scrum Masters on core initiatives and Ways of Working improvements, and assists with the adoption of agile across the wider ER business.
Key tasks
- Performs the role of Scrum Master across at least one team as servant leader, facilitator, coach, mentor, impediment remover, and change agent, as defined in The Scrum Guide.
- Adopts appropriate Agile frameworks, methods and techniques tailored to the context of the team.
- Undertakes regular improvements via the retrospective techniques of inspect and adapt, agrees measurements and tracks progress towards improvement.
Core skills
Role Specific
- Knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban. Experience of working in an Agile team delivering value to customers. This does not have to be a software development team.
- Able to kickstart changes to working patterns or learned behaviour to help the team improve.
- Challenges and pushes back to defend the team to ensure focus remains on the safe delivery of value.
- Experience of working in a DevOps environment beneficial.
Behavioural
- Learner : can rapidly assimilate new Agile knowledge, test such for applicability in-context, and apply that which has value to the team and customer.
- Critical thinker : can analyse the facts and form a judgement based on the evidence; is able to rapidly shift world view when new evidence supplants the old. All, with the aim of delivering better customer value from a motivated, happy team.
- Personable : enthusiastic, go-to member of the team who is emotionally intelligent and able to balance different emotional needs and viewpoints of team members and stakeholders.
- Servant Leader: supports the team in achieving better outcomes.
- Influencer – can articulate and challenge ideas and concepts to help the team focus on delivering the Sprint Goal.
- Able to work with a high degree of autonomy with team to determine effective ways to deliver value in an emergent context.
- Encourages autonomy and ownership inside own team.
Qualifications
- Recommended, but not essential: Level 1 Agile qualification such as CSM, CSPO, DASM, PSM, ICP, or equivalent.
Why Edenred PayTech?
We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group and leaders in prepaid solutions including banking, virtual cards, debit, credit, and prepaid processing.
As an Edenred PayTech employee you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.
What you will get:
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working environment with a 3 days per week in the office
- Income protection
- Life insurance (4x salary)
- Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members)
- Employee discount shopping platform
- Digital learning platform
- Complimentary fruit and other ‘in office’ snacks & refreshments
- Volunteering programme
- Social events
- Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%
- Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
- Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days)
- Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports)
- Monthly gym allowance
- Employee referral bonus scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to Work scheme
Diversity:
Edenred PayTech are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.
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