Scrum Master

About The Role

Team –

Health, Adviser & Employer - IT

Working Pattern -

Hybrid – 2 days per week in any of the Vitality Offices (Bournemouth, London or Stockport). Full time hours.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

What this role is all about:

As an experienced Scrum Master, you will oversee and guide one or more scrum teams, ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices. You will act as a mentor, motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating scrum events and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

You will work closely with Product Owners to assure backlogs are well organised, and take personal responsibility for wok readiness through DOR, and work completion through DOD. You will provide regular reporting to Software Engineering Managers and other stakeholders in relation to sprint progress, risks and issues, and release readiness.

You will collaborate in Scrum of Scrums assuring integrated solution schedules are tightly coupled and tracked to completion. You will act as the voice of the team, both in sharing their concerns, elimination worries and offering protection from upstream changes preventing collateral impact.

Key Actions

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principals to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.

• Gets the team to a high performing level by recognising areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

• Coaches the Scrum team in self organisation, cross functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively.

• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organisation.

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Retrospective.

• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices.

• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process – scheduling the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.

• Providing regular reporting on sprint status, burn up, quality metrics and KPI's.

• Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of completeness for the stage and definition of done (e.g. alpha, beta, production release).

• Help those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren't.

• Support the Product Owner in several ways, including:

• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood and communicated effectively to the team.

• Supporting the Product Owner in understanding and practicing agility.

• Work with the Product Owner to help understand and shape the Road Map.

What do you need to thrive?

• CSP (or equivalent) Certified.
• Work independently and collaborate effectively across the organisation.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented individual with the ability to take ownership of the task assigned.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong customer relationship skills.
• Excellent time management.
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.
• Understanding of the digital landscape.
• Deep understanding of Agile working practices.
• Experience coaching and mentoring.

So, what's in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.

Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w

e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About The Company

We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded

"Top 10 Best Places To Work"

in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!

Diversity & Inclusion

We're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

Vitality's approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early.

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