Scrum Master (f/m)

Scrum Master (f/m)

Harvey Nash is a worldwide leader in personnel recruitment; we support businesses and organisations in finding the right experts.
For our global client within the music industry we are looking for a Scrum Master on a freelance basis (f/m).
Project Start: asap
Duration: 6 months +
Location: Berlin

Tasks:

- Act as Scrum master for 2-3 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work to reach sprint and project objectives.
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible
- Act as a project manager when necessary. Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our teams and between our teams and customer teams.
- Facilitate and promote the effective use of the scrum development methodology.
- Ensure that the development teams practice and adhere to the core agile principles of collaboration, self-organization, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
- Guide, coach, and educate product owners and development teams through story development, iterations, retrospectives, product backlog management and decision making.
- Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Assist the team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
- Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
- Building a working environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Skills:

- Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I certification is mandatory
- 3 years of experience in agile development
- 2 years of experience as Scrum Master
- 1 year of experience as Scrum Master on Scaled Scrum projects (minimum 3 teams)
- Flexibility in performing either agile Scrum Master and traditional PO role concurrently.
- Able to act as the Scrum Master, Scrum Coach for 3 Scrum Teams in parallel working on the same product
- Have strong capabilities to organize Agile work streams within company project environment
- Able to track team velocity, health and sprint/release progress
- Understanding project escalations paths and proactively & effectively log, track, communicate, mitigate, escalate risks and issues
- Able to work efficiently in fast paced environments with evolving teams and get best possible outcomes
- Hands-on experience as a user of Jira in agile environment
- Knowledge of continuous integration and build process
- Understanding concept of Test Automation
- Likely to be educated to university degree level, or with equivalent professional experience and track-record, youre furthermore determined, organized, self-motivated and passionate about quality, clarity, efficiency and customer focus
- Availability to travel across Europe up to 5% of time is required. This position is based in Berlin.

Language:

- Excellent written and oral skills in English

If you are interested in this vacancy, we would be pleased to receive your updated CV, availability and your hourly rate with everything included.

Reference number: 321687
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Rabia Demir
Candidate Relationship Manager
[email protected]
(0049) 71120705135