Scrum Master

Job Title Scrum Master

Advert Sage is a global company with a local heart. The market leader for cloud-based accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, and payroll software, we empower the world’s business heroes—from single-person startups to large enterprises. Our people are passionate and positive. We inspire our colleagues to serve business builders everywhere and champion their success. As a FTSE 100 company with 14,000 colleagues across 24 countries, we do business the right way, while giving back to our local communities through the Sage Foundation. Sage is passionate about building a culture where our colleagues feel they can bring their whole selves to work. Where people know they’ll be judged on their performance and behaviours - not their identity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, color, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Job Description Sage is a global company with a local heart. The market leader for cloud-based accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, and payroll software, we empower the world’s business heroes—from single-person startups to large enterprises. Our people are passionate and positive. We inspire our colleagues to serve business builders everywhere and champion their success. As a FTSE 100 company with 14,000 colleagues across 24 countries, we do business the right way, while giving back to our local communities through the Sage Foundation. Be Sage, build on.

Key Responsibilities Job Description
Qualifications desired:
• knowledge of the software development life cycle
• certified scrum master/scrum practitioner
• knowledge and/or experience of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD
• excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
• experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations •
good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc).
• JIRA / Confluence
• friendly communicative person, with excellent conflict resolution skills
• needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in a iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source
• coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Why Sage?
At Sage you will have the following benefits:
• up to 5 days special leave per year for charitable work and volunteering of your choice
• great company culture and added social commitment through the Sage Foundation
• work-life-balance environment
• extremely generous bonus potential
• Sage Sharesave options
• long-term prospects for a professional career
Key Responsibilities
• act as Scrum master for 2-3 scrum teams across 1 Project with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
• Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams
• facilitate daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
• ensure cross-team coordination
• reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
• maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
• liaise between the developments teams and User Experience/Visual Designers. Foster better communication between the disciplines
• take responsibility for managing dependencies between Sage and third parties and / or between project scrum teams
• actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
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Product
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Function Product

Country United Kingdom

Office Location Newcastle

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