Quantum are currently working with a large fintech multinational based in Dublin. They are expanding their team and hiring a Scrum Master to work as part of a newly formed scrum team. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a truly agile development environment, adhering to the principles of Scrum.

Communication is key to this role as well as common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong organisational and communication skills
• Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
• A strong desire to learn and improve
• The ability to influence and drive agile best practices as a key member of an agile delivery team

Responsibilities:

• Guide and coach the team, stakeholders and organization to follow agile/scrum best practices
• Facilitate and improve the scrum ceremonies:
  • Promote scrum team engagement during refinement, reviews and retrospectives
  • Promote stakeholder engagement and communication during reviews
• Improve scrum and kanban team efficiency:
  • Assist in identifying and removing impediments
  • Help track and visualize team efficiency
• Guide and coach the team to become self-organized
• Work to build trust, both within the team and from stakeholders
• Recognise and act on team conflict. Encourage healthy constructive conflict, while working to prevent and resolve unhealthy conflict

Requirements

The ideal candidate will come from a technical background (ideally software engineering), with at least 2 years experience in a pure Scrum Master role.

• Experienced in a Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team
• Scrum Master certification is essential
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency and servant leadership
• Knowledge of agile approaches – kanban, scrum, XP.
• Knowledge and experience with agile techniques – automated testing, user stories, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, pairing, etc.
• Experience in working in a DevOps environment