Scrum Master
The salary for this role is £50,000-£60,000
Are you an experienced Scrum Master?
Do you have experience working with highly autonomous, cross functional teams, working to deliver complex Azure based applications and Infrastructure?
Would you like to work for a company that is passionate about safeguarding livestock in Great Britain?
Can you bring a great depth of Agile knowledge and a ‘servant leader’ mindset to a new position?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.
As a Scrum Master at LI, you will work with a highly talented team of engineers spanning a range of disciplines. The day for the Scrum Master begins with checking Azure for any overnight issues and leading the daily stand-up to discuss progress and blockers, ensuring the team is aligned for the day's work. You then spend your days collaborating with Product Owners to refine the product backlog, setting the stage for successful sprint planning, maintaining application security and resolving high-priority incidents, ensuring systems run smoothly and securely.
You’ll also tackle strategic tasks, from enhancing application performance to managing Level 3 support requests, ensuring quality and efficiency, whilst mentoring team members and fostering professional growth.
Responsibilities
An experienced Scrum Master and Business Analyst with a strong background in Azure technologies, Azure DevOps, Scrum methodologies, and Kanban to lead our Azure application and infrastructure team. This role is crucial in facilitating our agile development process, ensuring project goals are met efficiently and effectively. You will possess a unique blend of technical prowess, agile coaching skills, and a keen sense for business analysis to drive projects from conception to completion.
- Serve as the Scrum Master for our Azure application and infrastructure teams, guiding and coaching the team on Scrum and Kanban methodologies to optimise productivity and quality.
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring clear communication and collaboration among team members.
- Work closely with Product Owners to refine and maintain the product backlog, ensuring alignment with project goals and priorities.
- Oversee application and infrastructure maintenance, ensuring operational efficiency, security hardening, and compliance with industry standards.
- Lead break-fix incident management, offering Level 3 support and handling service requests to ensure high availability and reliability of applications and infrastructure.
- Employ Azure DevOps tools to manage projects, track progress, and facilitate continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) processes.
- Lead business analysis efforts, identifying requirements, analysing workflows, and proposing solutions that leverage Azure technologies to meet business needs.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team, encouraging innovation, and adopting best practices in agile project management.
- Manage project risks and impediments, ensuring they are identified, communicated, and resolved in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure projects align with business objectives and expectations.
- Provide mentorship and support to team members, promoting professional growth and development within the agile framework.
- Reporting success with regular analysis using burndown charts and driving efficiencies.
Requirements
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or similar agile project management certification.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst or in a similar role, with a proven track record of successfully managing agile projects.
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps, including Boards, Repos, Pipelines, and Test Plans.
- Knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and the ability to apply them in a flexible and practical manner.
- Experience in business analysis, BPMN, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and guide teams.
- Problem-solving mindset, with a focus on delivering results and achieving project objectives
Reporting structure
This role sits with the Service function and reports to the Service Operations Manager.
Values
We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team.
We are transparent together, embracing honesty and building trust. We are accountable to the industry and strive for the best possible solutions for the communities we serve. We drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively which allows us to support each other in our personal and strategic goals.
How you’ll work - Remote Working
We work fully remotely, and we come together once a quarter for in person all hands to connect and collaborate with our colleagues as well as other team meetings in shared spaces. We do allow working from locations outside of the UK (within GDPR compliant countries) for limited periods of time to allow for greater flexibility, but this will need to be approved by your manager first.
Benefits
As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:
- A fully remote and flexible working set up
- 33 days annual leave, inclusive of Bank Holidays
- 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
- Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
- Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued
Application and Interview Process
To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions.
The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.
If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing [email protected] before the closing date to discuss your needs.
The closing date for this role is 4pm on 31st July. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
Diversity statement
At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.
Livestock Information Ltd. Does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
Livestock Information Ltd. Does not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited CV’s not originating directly from a candidate and sent to Livestock Information Ltd or any Livestock Information Ltd employees, including unsolicited CVs sent to a Livestock Information Ltd mailing address or email address, are rejected. Livestock Information Ltd will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited CV. Livestock Information Ltd considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited CV referred by the company free of any fees.
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