Scrum Master

Overview

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.

Primary Responsibility

• Understand the functional & non-functional requirements
• Ensure that stories are complete and unambiguous
• Assign right stories to right person
• Run scrum ceremonies
• Ensure that every individual is finishing their work on time, and no one is blocked
• Assess risk and flag up if there is any potential scope creep or schedule slippage
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

Essential, must have one of own! Additionally.

• a geek that can speak; excellent spoken and written communication
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
  
  

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More on equality

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.

You will live the Kerv values…

• Think Customer First
• Team is everything
• Spread good vibes
• Build future
• Do the right thing