Hybrid remote, 2 days a week onsite Dublin City Center, 6 months initially with high expectation to be extended.
The Scrum Master will act as the Servant Leader of the project team, facilitating Scrum ceremonies during the initiation, planning, execution, and closure of projects, ensuring compliance with company standards and Agile practices.
The Person
As a Leader, the candidate will need to demonstrate capability in the following areas:
* Engage in detailed business and technical knowledge transfer to gain competent levels of understanding to help solve problems yourself, to facilitate others in problem-solving, and to help you anticipate and ‘unblock’ tasks.
* Appetite to gain an understanding of initiatives and their wider context, to be able to help challenge the team for achievement of business value.
* Be capable of and experienced in coping with ambiguity, putting shape on kick-offs, and driving initiatives forward from an early stage into tangible deliverables.
* Motivate teams forward towards our strategic and tactical objectives.
* Coach individuals to maximize their potential and their contribution to the Scrum team.
* Be willing and capable of helping to represent the team – this includes all areas of communication such as verbal status summaries, written reports, preparation of presentations, and stakeholder management.
As a member of the IT Leadership Group, the ideal candidate will need to be willing and able to contribute to the general running of the IT unit, engaging in any areas that ultimately lead to the effective operation of the Scrum teams and the Corporate Business IT unit.
Technical competencies, experience, and skills:
* Certified Scrum Master
* 7+ years’ experience in project delivery, with more recent experience in Agile delivery but respecting that the candidate may have valuable experience working in a Waterfall environment
* Professional accreditation of project management methodologies and processes, e.g. Prince 2, PMP, Agile
* Degree in IT / Computer Science / Project Management desirable
While the candidate must be committed to the principles of Scrum, it is equally important that they can demonstrate real-world application and experience within challenging circumstances. Candidates will need to demonstrate strong real-world examples through the following Competencies
* Leadership
* Planning and Organising
* Communication and Influencing
* Building and Maintaining Relationships
* Problem Solving and Decision Making
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