We are looking to grow our team and are searching for an Associate Scrum Master to join us. You will work closely with development teams to ensure that our Agile Framework is followed and help make incremental improvements so that we can achieve our goals. The ideal candidate has a passion for Agile and helping teams deliver. Come and help us to better support those working day to day, on the front-line!
Reporting to the Director of Engineering in Belfast.
What You’ll Be Doing – the day to day
You will be working day-to-day as part of the program management team within the product engineering division. You’ll be responsible for:
* Ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team uses Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
* Facilitating and mediating agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
* Collaborating across all the engineering teams.
* Understanding the purpose of each meeting and providing the team some level of direction, as well as steering the meeting without interfering.
* Allowing the right conversations to happen, keeping the teams focused on their priorities, using techniques to help direct the conversation and keep team members on track. Being comfortable having difficult discussions when necessary.
* Holding the team accountable to their sprint commitments and working with the team to align on an alternative plan when commitments are at risk of not being met.
* Facilitating working agreement creation, ensuring it is documented, and helping the team check their behaviors.
* Helping the team understand how JIRA is used and ensuring it is the source of truth for project progression. Capturing other documentation needs in Confluence.
* Assisting with work intake and collaborating with the team's business/product owner and other stakeholders to evangelize best practices around requirements analysis and breakdown.
* Communicating delays, roadblocks, or unexpected work to Development Managers, PO/BA, and other stakeholders.
* Resolving blockers and dependencies to help the team work more efficiently and improve inter-team dynamics.
Who You Are - some of the essential things required to be successful in the role
* Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban).
* A minimum of 1 year experience as a Scrum Master for a team.
* A Scrum Master Certification (CSM or PSM preferred).
* Experience of helping a team understand the Scrum framework and the benefits of improved transparency, productivity, and quality.
* Experience helping a team react to disruptions, getting resolution quickly, or effectively communicating roadblocks.
* Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, documentation, and coaching skills.
Who You Are – it’s desirable if you have any of the following
* Understanding of software development life cycle models.
* Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
* Understanding of and the ability to explain the fundamental principles and founding ideas behind agile.
* Experience of planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams.
* Experience of promoting Agile values and principles to peers outside of the team.
* Experience working with product owners to understand priorities and ensure the team's sprint goals align with those priorities.
* In-depth understanding of traditional project management principles and practices.
Benefits & Perks! You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to;
* Life insurance (4 x base salary) Income protection insurance.
* A generous pension contribution.
* Private medical insurance including optical and dental.
* A health cash plan.
* Modern City Centre office and a flexible hybrid working policy.
* AwardCo Recognition Program.
* Enhanced paternity leave and pay, enhanced adoptive pay, enhanced maternity pay - 12 weeks full pay after 6 months' service.
* Enhanced short and long-term sick pay.
* 25 days holiday which increases year on year until you reach 5 years of service + 14 additional days.
About ESO
ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology, and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We’re small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada, and Northern Ireland.
Are you ready to Make a Difference?
ESO is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We invite you to consider opportunities at ESO regardless of your gender; gender identity; gender reassignment; age; religious or similar philosophical belief; race; national origin; political opinion; sexual orientation; disability; marital or civil partnership status or other non-merit factor.
Our Equal Opportunity Statement of Policy for Northern Ireland is available on request.
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