Scrum Master

Nomia is transforming the way organizations manage tail spend procurement.

Our AI-powered SaaS platform combines cutting-edge technology with deep human procurement expertise to simplify sourcing, drive compliance, and unlock measurable value.

With a fast-growing global customer base and teams across London, Dubai, Singapore, Krakow, Chicago, and India, we’re building a rocket ship for growth, and we’re looking for passionate, high-impact people to join us.

The Role

You’re an influential leader with a natural gift for aligning teams to clearly defined goals and empowering them with the tools, structures, and disciplined processes they need to design, build, deploy, and run world-leading solutions. You’re proactive and know how to get the best out of all individuals for the greater good of the team. It’s all about the team and effective collaboration.

You’re a stickler for rules. You understand that processes need to be simple and clear if you expect people to follow them. But you also have a can-do attitude and are not afraid to think outside the box. You show judgment and self-confidence, and you’re comfortable working to a tight schedule.

You’re a great listener with excellent English communication skills (verbal & written) and proven influencing skills. You’ll enjoy measuring the performance of the team and presenting their achievements in a passionate manner using clear and engaging language. You’ll possess immense attention to detail and ensure our projects run like a well-oiled machine. You’re a self-starter with strong planning, time management, and organizational skills and you’re comfortable in a faced paced Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Resource utilisation & capacity planning.
• End-to-end project management including full ownership of Sprint management.
• Facilitate daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, release planning, and other team activities as required.
• Actively remove impediments that slow any aspect of the development team’s efforts.
• Ensure visibility and resolution of technical and business challenges.
• Promote and support the development team’s automated processes.
• Assist the team in implementing process improvements identified in Sprint Retrospectives.
• Fully responsible for all tasks covering the product development lifecycle.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams using Agile project management.
• Provide coaching to the team & organization to ensure adherence to established Agile processes and practices.
• Facilitate all communication & collaboration to ensure successful outcomes.
• Keep the development team in alignment with the Scrum framework, values, and principles, and ensure the team is focused on continuous improvement.
• Enforce daily builds to detect early issues in the compiled and aggregated code, as well as in the functionality delivered.
• Encourage team self-organisation and empowerment, and motivate all players.
• Share new industry Agile best practices.
• Support Product Managers in writing effective Product Backlog Items & maintaining prioritised backlogs for multiple products as the development team provides estimates for upcoming items.
• Assist the Product Manager in the Story refinement process.
• Assist QA Managers in implementing automation.
• Assist the Release Manager in planning & preparing Release Candidates.
• Develop and maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Managers and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams.
• Ensure proper project and portfolio reporting, including active risk management.
• Ensure up to date project information is captured in the relevant tools.

Skills & Qualifications

• You’re passionate about digital products and, in particular, facilitating teams to build them.
• You’re a people person and love working with smart, cross-functional, multi-disciplined technical and business teams.
• You’re smart & entrepreneurial but measured – you love a challenge & to innovate but you also have an organised and structured approach to tasks.
• You’re an excellent communicator – written & verbal – with awesome influencing skills.
• You’re likeable and you thrive in a fast-paced & (sometimes) chaotic startup environment.

• 10+ years as a Scrum Master/Project lead working with dedicated Agile teams using Scrum or Kanban
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, IT or similar discipline
• Professional Certification in Scrum methodologies
• Highly experienced using Jira, Notion/Confluence, Slack, etc.
• Experience in SDLC/STLC across Agile product development
• Software/Product release management experience
• Knowledge of projects/releases in start-up environment

General Information

• Adhere to Nomia’s data protection and information security policies at all times.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in line with Nomia’s core values.
• This is a hybrid role, with three office days per week required, potentially more during training or as requested by your supervisor.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in systems and processes.
• Please note that this role description is a guideline, and duties may evolve over time.