Jan 13, 2024 - Agile Solutions GB is hiring a remote Lead Consultant - Agile Scrum Master. 📍Location: UK.

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Agile Scrum Master

Location: Flexible

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

Contract type: Permanent, Full-time

Responsibilities:

Utilize extensive programme planning knowledge to steer projects towards success, coordinating workshops, meetings, and managing stakeholder relations.
Identify and mitigate risks and issues, and manage the dynamic planning process, aligning priorities with roadmap and team capacity.
Collaborate with the Product Owner to define project scope and translate it into a practical release plan.
Demonstrate expertise in Agile methodologies, focusing on Kanban and Scrum, to guide teams and enhance processes.
Transform teams to focus on product-centric work, manage the product backlog, and ensure organizational alignment.
Facilitate key Agile ceremonies and engage in conflict resolution, upholding core scrum values.
Forecast iteration deliverables based on reliable data, serve as an Agile practices coach, and develop practical plans for data and analytics projects.

Experience:

Proven experience in programme planning and management, roadmap definition, and stakeholder engagement.
Competency in backlog planning and tracking, capacity planning across multiple products, and utilization of various reporting metrics.
Experience in the parallel delivery of data and analytics products, including pipeline engineering, reporting, analytics, and data science/ML.
Thorough understanding of agile methodologies, frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, and agile principles and practices.
Skilled in coaching teams to collaboratively deliver and follow agile principles.
Knowledge of iterative and incremental development fundamentals.
Expertise in various Agile techniques such as User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.

Desirable:

Skills in programme and delivery management, as well as stakeholder engagement and expectations management.
Practical knowledge of Scrum & Kanban practices in real-world settings.
Experience with Microsoft Azure Data Pipeline Development, Azure Platform Capability, and Analytics Products.
Understanding of cloud-based platforms (PaaS) and the data and analytics delivery lifecycle.
Ability to implement agile development practices for a new team.
Experience or familiarity with Data and Analytics in a utility context is a plus.
Strong understanding of could-based platforms (PAAS) and data and analytics delivery lifecycle
Agile development practices implementation for a new team
Utility with Data and Analytics experience is a plus

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