Scrum Master

Job Description

Scrum Master | Life Sciences | 1/2 Days a week onsite in Cambridge | £48,000 - £58,000Langham recruitment are proud to be recruiting for a high-profile genomics institute / life sciences organisation supporting science and governments globally in tackling a range of diseases including Covid-19. Our client is based out of Cambridge but the rolehas the capability to be worked on a hybrid basisAs a Scrum Master your role will be to manage individual product deliveries within the Delivery Teams embedding consistent Agile/Scrum Practices as they develop complex digital solutions for the application suites and any associated new products.Skills experienced/Required:

• Experienced Scrum Master
• Knowledge of Scrum, Agile and Lean processes
• PSM or CSM or relevant Scrum Qualification
• Serve, support and orchestrate a scrum teamto drive productivity, collaboration and deliver success
• Demonstrateddelivery experience of complex online, web and digital productsacross multiple platforms and technologies with a thorough understanding of the full development lifecycle using the Agile Scrum methodology
• Ability to work with andcollaboratewith software development teams, product managers, operations managers and other teams to ensure that we have the technologies and processes in place to allow our teams to work efficiently
• Track and transparency provide resource demand and deliveryacross a scrum team to ensure delivery milestones are met
• Experience ofAgile software development and testing methodsfor deployment in cloud environments
• 1/2 days a week onsite in Cambridge

Role:

• Ensure the scrum team follows the Agile methodology and the scrum framework, supported via appropriate coaching and scrum master activities.
• Removal of blockers to successful delivery.
• Promote Scrum values of Transparency, Focus, Courage, Respect, Commitment within the Scrum team whilst also acting as a buffer for the teams, removing distractions to delivery and interference from internal and external sources.
• Facilitate organisation and Scrum ceremonies (Story Time, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives) in an engaging way that is not so much focussed on the ceremony but is focussed on delivery.
• Build internal team relationships with Product Owners, Data Architect, Development and QA Test teams.
• Drive consistent reporting on sprint activity to senior management in the context of the overall project deliverables.
• Manage stakeholder engagement to ensure clarity of requirements and removing ambiguity to encourage collaboration both internally in the team and externally with stakeholders.Facilitate scrum meetings and ceremonies eg sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews
• Lead on the improvement of practices within the team

Benefits:

• Genuine job satisfaction and purposeserving scrum teams developing digital products that support a scientific community at one of the worlds leading research centres delivering extraordinary improvements in human health through genomic surveillance data.
• Autonomyin how you provide servant leadership and process improvements within your nominated scrum or Kanban team, supported by their Scrum Master community of practice. TheirScrum Masters work alongside our certified Product Owners, Developers and QAtest teams, supported by Data Architects and Data Engineers.
• The opportunity toorchestrate iterative deliveryof robust and maintainable web-based services supporting internal and external scientific research and public health communities typically using technologies of JavaScript (including React/Vue), Python,Postgres, PractiTest, deployed to public & private cloud environments.
• The opportunity toshowcase the services you help buildthrough an open data and open source culture helping to build great technologies that support the vision of Surveillance Operations.

Salary and Additional Benefits

• Salary range £48,000 - £58,000
• 25 days holiday to start with more days allocated through continued service
• 10 days emergency paid carers leave per year
• Flexible working
• On-site workplace nursery offering a salary sacrifice scheme
• Kids summer holiday club
• Enhanced maternity, parental and adoption leave
• Private healthcare scheme
• Free and confidential counselling and mental health first aiders
• Sports and social club with subsidised gym, tennis courts, sports hall, and fitness classes
• Eyecare and dental health schemes
• 2 days annual paid volunteer leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Generous pension scheme
• Tech portal and discount schemes
• Quarterly staff recognition programme
• Long service awards
• Extensive training programmes.

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply today!