Senior Scrum Master

Senior Scrum Master 

Limerick

6 months with potential of extension

€45-65 per hour
 

Key Responsibilities:
 

• Supporting the Product Owner and Development Team to deliver on the Product Backlog.
• Lead and develop operations plans including application releases/updates, data/hardware migrations, and stability/performance improvements.
• Identifying project risks and driving mitigations
• Coordinate dependent teams to align on deliverables and timelines for project dependencies
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
• Guiding and coaching the team to ensure Scrum practices and principles are adhered to.
• Ensure the Development Team is self organising.
• Facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies, that is, the Daily Stand Up, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment, on a continual basis.
• Delivery of complex applications ensuring conformance to development standards
• Ensure capacity models are utilized appropriately.
• Provide proper level of support to team as they address issues and challenges across all services areas ? including escalations and blockers.
• Metrics driven approach to improvements
• Implement a quality first mentality to ensure all solutions are delivered with zero critical defects, using techniques such as test drive development and test automation.
   

Qualifications
 

• Bachelors in Technology Sciences, Economics or related fields preferred.
• 5+ yrs of relevant experience preferred in the Healthcare industry.
• Possess an excellent understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Solid understanding of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team role and User Epic and Story Creation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills, facilitating escalated issues to resolution.
• Experience in leading multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must have good planning, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• History of project delivery utilising project management methodologies e.g. PMBOK etc.
• Proven ability to lead and influence.
• Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills; good oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in any of the following technology solutions is required: Data and Analytics and Native Cloud development, IoT, Mobile and Web technologies.