EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

These are some of the skills and experience we’re looking for in this position:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies - retros, stand ups, 3 amigos, reviews etc
• Coaching Agile scrum teams - T-shaped, vertical slicing, continuous delivery, etc
• Jira management - e.g. roadmap, sprint boards, dashboards
• Reporting to senior leadership - Jira, Looker Studio
• Cross team collaboration & communication
• Certified Scrum Master - (not essential)

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Growth mindset and Curiosity: We are still working on ways to make our systems, processes, software, and everything we do, better. We’ll expect you to have a voice, raise problems and bring innovation.
• Teamworking: We will achieve more by working together to achieve common goals. We need people who know their own strengths and weaknesses, and can empathise with others.
• Tenacious: we need people who are tenacious and resilient and who don’t get downhearted if results don’t go their way; we are a scale-up and things change rapidly - you need to find that exciting, not frustrating.
• Ownership: we are looking for people who take the initiative to fix shared problems and move forward fast. There is no time for blame or fault.

NorthRow is looking for an experienced Scrum Master as maternity cover (12 months) for a small engineering team. You’ll have several years commercial experience in an Agile environment and be familiar with the tools and methods needed to facilitate collaboration and a product mindset. You’ll be a good fit if you’re positive and personable and an excellent communicator.
In this role you’ll take a lead role in Engineering and have a major impact on the performance of the team. We want to see you bring best practices and an iterative, product centric approach to development, where building something awesome is what’s important. Continual improvement is key to getting the best out of each member of our team.
Expect to collaborate with a full stack product team and the CTO to shape the implementation of significant new capabilities in our platform as we go through a major change in the business. This is not a business as usual position!