Job Title: Agile Scrum Master - Hybrid Location: Reading - Once a week (Tuesday or Thursday) Salary/Rate: Up to £494 a day Inside IR35 Start Date: February Job Type: 6-Month Contract (With scope to extend) Company Introduction We are looking for an Agile SCRUM Master to join our client in the Telecommunication industry. The successful candidate must be able to be onsite once a week either Tuesday or Thursday. Required Skills/Experience Stakeholder Management - able to build relationships across a wide variety of audiences and situations, use communication skills to influence, network and collaborate with others, internally and externally Speed - develop disruptive thinking in order to come up with and deploy new ideas and ways of working at pace, choose speed over perfection with test & learn mindset Uncertainty - accept uncertainty as an opportunity not as a threat Flexibility - able to move between agile teams and topics and quickly adapt to new environment Enabling/ Collaboration - always approach things from the customer's perspective seeing potential problems & finding solutions Responsible - always strive to meet or exceed the expectations, stand by decisions and actions, commit to things that are delivered Innovation - work creatively making decisions and thinking outside the box Passion - shows energy and enthusiasm in their job commitment Facilitate communication across teams and functions Challenge conventional thinking and ways of working to improve a team's way of working, end user experiences, and product deliveries. Demonstrate excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills (the ability to converse with, enthuse, and influence team members and peers). Resilient, self-motivated, and proactive and able to work with speed and accuracy to deadlines. Positive "can do" attitude. Job Responsibilities/Objectives Responsible for ensuring that the teams adhere to the agile/scrum practices prescribed by the VM DNT Agile Chapter. Organize and conduct scrum events, including sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospectives, product demos and daily scrums. Partner with Product Owners to achieve high-quality and timely deliverables based on highest business value. Manage sprint planning and execution, including providing clear visibility into sprint status. Participate in roadmap planning and scheduling by providing scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and creating velocity and delivery forecasts. Ensure high throughput of development teams by identifying and mitigating potential issues and roadblocks. Work with stakeholders ensure product backlog is prioritized, refined, and detailed to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework. Facilitate issue resolution within the team, including safeguarding scrum team from external influences or diversions. Assist with backlog maintenance and prioritization of defect resolution. Coach scrum team members in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition. Create and maintain sprint and product burndowns, velocity metrics and projections, and forecasts in order to demonstrate transparency and openness, and to enable timely adjustments. Contribute to the rollout of agile methodologies by contributing to training and coaching of team members and management. Works hands-on with scrum and Kanban teams, supporting and guiding them in ways of working and agile deliveries. Supports and collaborates with other agile practitioners, managers, and project managers to ensure alignment and standardization of agile practices and team deliverables. Liaises with the Product Owner and delivery leads to understand strategic priorities, key business & technical objectives, and product roadmaps. Desirable Certifications Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), and/or Certified/Professional Product Owner accreditation; or equivalent experience as a Scrum Master. Degree-level education (strongly preferred, not essential) Demonstrated understanding of agile and lean principles, and value-based delivery; minimum of 2 years hands-on experience with agile, scrum, or lean methodologies. Experience in one or more aspects of information technology delivery (software design/development, IT architecture, project or programme management). Experience in the telecommunications, broadband or OSS/BSS domains a plus. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.