Senior Scrum Master – 80K
Market leading international consultancy organisation requires a Senior Scrum Master for the team in their Dublin office.
Much of the Company’s current portfolio is focused on the area of New or ‘Disruptive’ technologies. technologies and the impact they will have on ways of working. We are now looking for an Agile Scrum Master with a proven track record of large-scale digital transformation project delivery.
This is a permanent role and comes with a generous benefits package. With an easily accessible an exciting project portfolio, easily accessible city centre location and a flexible hybrid working scheme, this offers ambitious Scrum Masters the change to further their careers in a dynamic and supportive environment
Responsibilities of Role
* You will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects through methodologies such as Agile Scrum/Kanban and traditional Waterfall (when required), leveraging your domain knowledge and sector experience
* Participate in presentations and proposals for medium complex projects or elements of highly complex projects
* Working with client teams you will be responsible for setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions as well as hosting daily stand-ups and shielding the team from interruptions during Sprints
* Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource on one or more services, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems
* Understand all our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients.
* Takes responsibility for the mobilisation and delivery of projects/products delivered in an Agile manner
* Maintains focus so that projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies and are managed to realise business benefits to agreed timelines.
* Identifies and advises on project level decisions that influence significant project direction and escalates decisions that cannot be resolved to the agreed governance forums.
* You’ll be responsible for contributing to proposals and client presentations for complex IT delivery projects that require disciplined project management expertise.
* Be responsible for your own self-development, and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
* Actively contribute to the Company’s Agile Community of practice
* Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines.
* Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative insights for clients looking to adopt Agile as a means of project delivery
* To lead Technology Consulting engagements and support in managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for more junior level staff and managing engagement
billings, and estimates to complete
* Develop team members through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring
* Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.
Essential Candidate Requirements
* Additional professional qualifications, such as Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner and SAFe or Diploma Level in Agile Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body
* Additional non agile specific accreditation and practitioner experience of a range of Project Management approaches including PRINCE2, PMI, PMOBOK etc. or Masters Level in Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution
* Excellent presentation skills
* Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
* People management experience
* At least 5 years’ experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes or at least 7 years’ experience
working for a leading company, in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes
* Experience in one or more of our focus industries including Power & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, , Advanced Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
* Experience of one or more technology areas including but not limited to ERP, CRM. Digital Workplace, CX, Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics, RPA, Emerging Tech, IoT, Blockchain
* Hands-on experience in Scrum acting in a Scrum Master role and working with Agile methods for software delivery e.g. Scrum, SAFE, Kanban, Lean, TDD and CI/CD.
* Proven skills in effectively coaching, mentoring and motivating a cross functional Agile team (consisting of PO, Developers and QA) to improve the pace and evolve delivery practices
* A proven ability to manage and deliver on software projects in a fast-paced environment
* Have structured approach to problem solving and be a self-starter with the ability to work independently managing your own workload with an attention to detail
* Be able to manage different stakeholders across the project you work on
* Have a proven ability to be able to take a ‘big picture’ delivery and project management view as well as being able to work at a detailed level across a broad range of contract types and engagement approaches
* Experience of working in a matrix managed organisation
* Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences and ability to translate strategy into measurable business benefits
PLEASE NOTE – Our client cannot presently consider applications from candidates that require any kind of work permit or job offer needed to work in the EU.
For more information on this role, please contact Níall on +353 1 8690258 or +353 87 384 5327.
To apply directly, please send current CV along with brief cover letter through this site.
| Job Reference | 130156 |
| Job Duration | Permanent |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Salary | €70000 - €80000 per annum |