Technical Scrum Master
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract
Up to £960 per day (via Umbrella)
cer Financial are working alongside an international who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Technical Scrum Master to work with them on a contract.
The responsibilities of a Technical Scrum Master will include:
- Responsible for effective and efficient running of Software Development Scrums consisting of Developers, Testers, Business Analysts and other stakeholders
- Own, update and publish Release calendars including patches, upgrades, DR tests and similar.
- Responsible for anticipative smooth non-prod environment provisioning, including relevant data pre-requisites and upstream/downstream dependencies
- Ensure Release Candidates’ integrity, transparent scope management and timely code lockdowns
- Create release plans, schedules, and guidelines, and ensure releases meet requirements and budgets
- Ensure that everyone on the team understands goals, scope, estimates and burndown charts of each iteration
- Maintain product backlog and agree prioritisation with senior stakeholders
- Identify and remove obstacles so that the team members can focus on their immediate tasks
- Keep stakeholders up to date via direct communications, tailored reports and JIRA dashboards
- Escalate any serious challenges to scope, timelines and budget to senior management
The successful Technical Scrum Master will have:
- Core Agile methodology, Scrums, Sprints, Burndown tracking and frequent high-quality software deployments using Atlassian suite of products (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, etc)
- Understanding of effective Source Control and Release Management tools (such as Bamboo, Bitbucket, GitHub etc)
- Exposure to Front Office trading systems is required