Senior Scrum Master

Experian Limited ,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Job Type: Full-time

Overview

Responsibilities · Member of the Platform Centre of Expertise (Platform CoE) leadership team · Provides EITS-wide Scrum/Agile leadership · Operates productive relationships across Experian and beyond · Ensure that the department's teams are building a highly available, secure, globally performing Platform that can be run in-house, in co-lo or public cloud with elastic scalability · Ensuring that the Platform is built from code configuration, not manually and that all artefacts are version controlled · Assists with ad-hoc Program Management coordination of cross-team dependencies and alignment with wider strategic programs · Ensure alignment and provides leadership to of the wider Experian/EITS Agile framework(s) · Provide agile leadership/mentoring to both COE members and any aligned resources · Builds strategic relationships with BU's, Regions, other EITS Management Team members · Ensures sprint activities are cascaded effectively into the team and assists in tracking/removing blockers · Drives continual optimisation of departmental sprint team capabilities, morale and environment to their aligned line manager(s) · Collaboratively inputs into workload prioritisation, relationships and strategy · Leads the tracking, reporting and on-going optimisation of agile processes within the COE · Coordinates with aligned PMs to ensure effective delivery in line with wider portfolio activities · Collaborating with management team, both within and outside of EITS · Assisting in interviewing and selection of candidates, during recruitment · Provides frank feedback on team capabilities, morale and environment to their aligned line manager · Lead an agile development environment, with a team of mixed development and infrastructure backgrounds, to ensure a mutually supported environment o Offering assistance, coaching or mentoring to other team members, where you have specific areas of expertise - to help grow others o Reaching out for assistance from others, where you have areas for development - to help grow yourself o Maintaining an open, collaborative and adaptable culture in the team - always challenging yourself and the group to adapt and grow in a changing business and technical environment o Perform research, conduct pilots and disseminate results to team members · Assist in forecasts and budget management for their team's needs, including securing funding · Collaboratively inputs into workload prioritisation, relationships and strategy · Assists with Procurement/Sourcing negotiations for specific product/consultancy deliverables. · Assists with communications around service · Assists the Platform Owner and Product Owners in prioritising the backlog, running sprint ceremonies to deliver against the sprint objectives and the overall Platform roadmap · Manages differing (and often competing) requirements from multiple stakeholders and regions to judge the priorities overall · Operates a productive network of contacts throughout the Experian matrix · Sources the solution of problems from within and outside of the team · Direction is given by the VP Platform COE Knowledge, Skills, Business Acumen · Expert knowledge/certification of agile processes and tools appropriate to their portfolio across the CoE · Has good knowledge of agile techniques and PM frameworks to allow competent communication with other Experian teams and to make appropriate decisions · Assists in the planning of budgets, demonstrating understanding of capex and opex and the phasing of spend over time Leadership / Interpersonal skills / People management · Leads the management and departmental development of deep agile skills and understanding · Develops and participates in a high-performing team with good personal development and succession planning · Influences others across EITS and senior figures in the business units · Represents the CoE in dealings with customers and colleagues · Capable of deputising for a Director for short periods of time, such as vacations LI-SH1

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