Software Development Manager / Scrum Master

Job description

Software Development Manager / Scrum Master - Bristol - £65K

Company:

A leading software solutions business whose products are used by some of the world's leading organisations.

You will take charge of a highly technical product development team and be responsible for the Scrum/Agile process.

Key Responsibilities

• Management of technical scrum teams
• Lead and implement and be an advocate of agile process within the team and work with other Scrum Masters to ensure consistency across teams
• Lead team in planning and estimating process
• Hold sprint retrospectives to continually improve process
• Regular progress reports to PMO of sprint progress
• Day to day management of team
• Run daily stand-ups ensuring team focus and problem management of issues
• Work closely with Head of Development services to identify improvement opportunities
• Work closely with PMO to enable the on-time delivery of projects
• Ensure that projects are accurately estimated and delivered to schedule
• Show flexibility to respond to the changing needs of the business.
• Actively contribute to the process of continual improvement, with regard to self, team and systems
• Inspire and motivate team members
• Be knowledgeable about each member of your team, their strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness, whilst translating each of their behaviours into clear tasks and objectives to improve their individual performance.

Essential

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master
• Previous Line management experience
• Technical understanding of development activities

Key Skills:

Scrum Master - Scrum Processes - Agile Scrum Master - Sprint - Sprints - Software Development Manager - Dev Manager - Java - Manager - Line Manager - Leadership - Software Delivery - Software Project Management - Kamban