Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master

Experience: 8+ years

Where the job is based: Bangalore

This role demands 3 days of work from the office every week and occasional out-of-hours working to support customer interests.

The agile delivery team enabler capable of building effective teams by unlocking what will work for the team rather than just policing agile processes. Highly effective at building relationships with teams and with people too, actively removing impediments and reducing waste to increase team alignment and autonomy. A true servant-leader, coaching individuals, teams and customers in adopting agile working practices and increasing effectiveness to take ownership and accountability for their work.

Who we are:

Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking architects.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

Required Experience:

• Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business
• Creating and maintaining the environment in which the agile delivery will succeed
• Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams
• Living the eight stances of a Scrum Master
• Upholding the principles of the Manifesto of Agile Software Development.
• Educating teams in agile ways of working with excellent facilitation skills
• Using a range of agile frameworks and methodologies and not adopting a "one size fits all" approach
• Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell), working alongside our project managers and delivery managers
• Working with a continuous improvement mindset to articulate what better looks like
• Software, Digital or Business Scrum Mastery holding relevant certifications to back up your in-depth experience
• Disciplined Agile Scrum Master / Senior Scrum Master / Coach is desirable
• Excellent written and presentation skills, the ability to think on feet and make decisions
• Other tasks as reasonably requested
  
  
  

Desirable Experience:

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
• ability to understand and drive deliverables within the Scrum team,
• ability to work closely with a Product Owner on priorities and backlog refinement
• ability to run stand-ups, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives, show and tells, and guide others to do so
• ability to closely with other Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Solution and Software Architects to ensure cross team co-ordination,
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
  
  
  

"At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together".

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