Scrum Master

Phoebus Software is the UK’s leading provider of technology to the loan servicing, banking, and lending sectors in the UK and Ireland. The Phoebus solution is used to administer over 100 lender portfolios from more than 25 clients with a total value of almost £100 billion. It has operated from Solihull since being founded in 1989.

What will your job look like...

Lead the development team(s) to reach consensus for what can be achieved during a specified period of time

• Helping the team to reach consensus during the daily scrum
• Lead the development team to ensure that they stay focused and follow the agreed-upon rules for daily scrums
• Remove obstacles that are impeding the team's progress
• Protect the development team from outside distractions planning and estimating.
• Ensure that the development team as a whole delivers against its outcomes and commitments, to the required level of quality.

Key Duties:

• Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers, internal and external.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation.
• Guiding the team on self-organising
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Leading by example

Experience required:

• Educated to at least degree level in a Computer Science or associated discipline
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team, delivering commercial applications, that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.)
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of various aspects of the Scrum approach. E.g. Burndown technologies, Retrospectives, Bugs management etc.).
• Strong JIRA and Confluence knowledge
• Strong knowledge of unit and integration testing approaches
• Knowledge of Git and SQL
• Demonstrated desire to learn new technologies, techniques and approaches
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, to achieve goals as agreed by within a self-directed team
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Desirable:

• Familiarity with CI or CD
• Strong Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven
• Knowledge of Azure Devops
• Excellent analytic skills and an ability to demonstrate critical thinking
• Knowledge of a variety of Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.

Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

Benefits: Why work with us?

If you are passionate about learning and development and have a desire to help others grow and succeed, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Private Health care scheme including dental, optical, and mental health cover

Wellbeing Choice - £350.00 per annum paid towards wellbeing activities of your choice

Life assurance scheme at 4x salary

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible working

Contributory Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows

33 days Holiday, including 8 bank holidays (5 of which are flexible bank holidays)

Discretionary annual salary review & bonus

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Events & gifts to celebrate Long Service and Birthdays & social events

****************Hybrid working office attendance required once a week******************

Our Company Values

At Phoebus we are driven by our purpose and values, building our team with the right people is fundamental to our business & culture:

Our Purpose: ‘To care about our clients, our product, our people and having fun’

Our DONE values are made up of the following and we strive to live our values daily when working with colleagues & clients:

Dedicated

Open

No Nonsense

Excellence

Phoebus is an equal opportunities employer, and we support hybrid & flexible working.

Phoebus advocates for diversity, neurodiversity & disability inclusion.

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