Jobs and Careers

[RTC] Scrum Master

Kraków, PolandRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jul 2023

About the role

Company Description

Agile Soul – Software Mind

On the surface, we are a global IT service and software company that has collaborated on countless projects all over the world.

Below it – an ally of those who decided to take their software development to the next level.

Job Description

Project - the aim you'll have

You will be a part of an agile team that includes Polish and British developers and testers in order to deliver, rebuild and extend an existing IT ecosystem for a travel industry company. You will be engaged in adding new features, rebuilding existing solutions and proposing new architecture. This will require digital transformation initiatives, evolving existing platforms evolution, digital, web and mobile development and tech debt removal. Work will be divided between 4-5 teams that concentrating on each of the specific areas:

Developing new functionalities and maintaining existing ones
Performing code reviews
Participating in creating product architecture
Supporting the development team through exchanging knowledge and skills
Collaborating closely with testers (QAs), business analysts, product owners, and scrum masters

Position – how you’ll contribute

As a teacher, you’ll support teams and their stakeholders in learning Agile theory and practices, as well as adopting an Agile mindset
As a mentor, you’ll support teams and their stakeholders in applying Agile theory and mindset to their work
As a coach, you’ll support teams and their stakeholders in continuous growth towards improvement and elimination of unnecessary activities
As a facilitator, you’ll ensure the productivity of team meetings

The daily responsibilities of the Scrum Master include:

Leading and coaching Scrum teams and enabling them to self-organize to achieve their sprint goals
Facilitating all of the Scrum team ceremonies, cooperating with POs and BAs and working closely with the team to understand progress and clear any blockers
Representing the team at the Scrum of Scrums to escalate issues and cross-team dependencies
Working with a Product Owner to ensure that the team backlog and plans are ready for future sprints
Ensuring that the team’s progress is transparent via reporting

Because we use SAFe as a planning support framework, you’ll also:

Take part in the preparation for the PI Planning phase
Be a contributor to the PI Planning event
Support business and technical teams
Be a true Agile Rebel and remember that tools are supposed to help us and we shouldn’t follow them blindly

In general, as a Servant Leader, you’ll:

Understand where your team(s) are in their Agile journey and offer the right approach to support their growth
Identify process issues and difficulties within and around your teams and assist in solving them
Ensure that onboarding processes for new team members are carried out
Co-operate with other Agile professionals to identify improvement opportunities across teams and the organization, spot issues and work on resolving them
Co-operate with other Agile coaches to develop standards for Agile processes within teams
Co-operate with other Agile coaches when working on a multi-team project

Qualifications

Expectations – the experience you need

Theoretical and practical understanding of Agile – and some frameworks used to implement it e.g., Scrum, Kanban
Experience in the Agile way of working
Facilitation, teaching, coaching and mentoring skills
Communication and problem-solving skills
Patience, empathy, humility
Ability to work in a team
Open-minded attitude and readiness to embrace change
Ability to self-organize
Ability to say no and keep workloads under control

Additional skills – the edge you have