Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organisation
• Facilitating Agile practices and ceremonies: daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and other activities as needed
• Promoting and demonstrating core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility (being an ambassador)
• Ensuring a collaborative culture exists within GIS , its (external) development partners and their product teams, promoting team building and ensuring the entire team is engaged
• Identifying and supporting the team with removing any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to deliver against their commitments
• Coaching the team in creating the product backlog, sprint backlogs and writing user stories in the most pragmatic way
• Supporting Product Team in tracking and communicating team progress and backlogs. Looking for opportunities to increase teams effectiveness (and therewith business value)
• Managing ‘Work In Progress Limits’, making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helping them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner
• Identifying product team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices in order to increase team effectiveness and overall product quality
• Encouraging the team to look for opportunities to help each other out (e.g. by swarming higher priority user stories that team members are struggling with)
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree
• Candidate should have at least 1,5 + years work experience in an IT environment
• Scrum certificate
• Excellent (communication skills) written and verbal English
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills and leadership skills (able to push back, but also able to pull, influencing and negotiating skills, lead by example and positive role model)
• Excellent team player and team builder, (experience with remote teams, active listening skills, ability to negotiate, ability to motivate and develop team)
• Positive (are logical and analytical and have ) and problem solving skills (but also creative and foster culture to generate new ideas)
• Experience with change management, leadership, coaching, solution oriented and continuous improvement
• People oriented, experienced in working with different cultures, foster culture of giving feedback
• Ability to work in fast paced environment, meet deadlines and perform at high standards
• Flexible leadership style: able to push back, but also able to pull
• Knowledge of the business and the importance of creating value for both the business and the customer
  
  

Offer:

• Private medical healthcare

• Performance bonus 

• Life insurance

• Sodexo card

• Referral program

• Integration events

• Development opportunities

• Christmas gifts

• Extra social benefits

• Work from home flexibility (also after COVID)