Mainframe Scrum Master

National Westminster Bank
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 65K

Job location

Remote
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Continuous Integration
Mainframes
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Extreme Programming (XP)

Job description

  • We're looking for a Scrum Master who will be responsible for delivering infrastructure projects on the Mainframe, a key platform for the bank
  • You'll make sure that your team lives by the values of Scrum, empowering them to become high performing to increase the productivity, transparency, frequency and quality of delivery
  • Hone your project skills as you work with talented people in collaborative and innovative environment, with access to the bank's Agile community, experts and events

What you'll do

This role will see you coaching and guiding your team to perform at their highest level and at a sustainable pace. You'll remove any impediments to progress, facilitate meetings, protect the team from outside influences or distractions and work with the product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Acting as process owner for the team, and maintaining the relationship with the project's key stakeholders
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Encouraging the team to build relationships to promote internal and external communication, improving transparency, and sharing information with all interested parties

Requirements

We're looking for someone with experience of successful Scrum adoption along with a Scrum Master certification. You'll need knowledge of modern development practices and tools, such as extreme programming, test-driven development and continuous integration.

You'll also need knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency, as well as experience of building a culture of transparency within feature teams by empowering individuals and inspiring a collaborative team performance.

We'll look to you to demonstrate:

  • An understanding and knowledge of infrastructure and teams to engage for delivery
  • Knowledge of the Mainframe infrastructure and the teams supporting it
  • A background in coaching cross-functional teams into high performing teams
  • Experience of changing organisational, team or department mindsets and structure
  • An understanding and experience of applying empirical process control
  • Strong knowledge of the Agile manifesto and its principles
  • Experience of automated testing frameworks

Your benefits breakdown

Here's a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Annual leave
  • Transport links
  • On-site parking

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