Scrum Master

👉 Who are we?

Our team consists of experienced programmers open to teamwork and exchange of experiences, which makes us motivate each other for further development. We work fully remotely. 

The name of our company (Happy Team) clearly indicates our work culture and the main goals we set for ourselves - we strive to ensure that our employees are satisfied both with their work and life in general. We achieve this thanks to:

🔹 a well-coordinated team (culture fit is very important to us)

🔹 a partnership approach to colleagues

🔹 great atmosphere in the team

🔹 integration trips

🔹 supporting all development ideas 

We are looking for a talented Scrum Master who is going to support one of our biggest clients - Royal Mail.

👉 Why Royal Mail?

Our award-winning Technology team is embarking on a mission for disruptive innovation and industry change. We are on a journey of Agile Transformation to pride ourselves in becoming more user-focused, more value-driven, more purpose led and - building with our customers who truly matter at the heart and core of our design. We’re ready to innovate faster to the next level across our products and services at Royal Mail Technology, are you ready to come with us and make a real difference and impact on the journey?

👉 What will you do?

🔹Championing Agile principles, practices and values to help teams develop a baseline of mastery and a focus around continuous improvement. 

🔹Actively participating in our Agile Delivery Community of Practice shared initiatives, knowledge sharing and helping to form agile best practices. 

🔹Cultivating agile delivery metrics to forecast and support teams in embedding an evidence-based inspect and adapt mentality. 🔹Encouraging honest and open discussions to help teams stay accountable and realistic around their capacity, goals and sprint commitments. 

🔹Supporting stakeholders in understanding the needs of an empirical mindset and building iteratively and incrementally.

🔹Supporting teams around identifying and spotting risks, dependencies and blockers and minimising the impacts early on. 🔹Facilitating well time-kept ceremonies and workshops across teams, domains and our Product and Engineering function.

🔹Encouraging team transparency around progress and priorities and identifying core key audiences to raise and support.

🔹Embedding and instilling quality through effective testing practices and techniques. 

🔹Championing fast, adaptive and responsive value-driven delivery, building with our end-users needs at the heart of our thinking.

🔹Coaching Product Owners around backlog prioritisation, road mapping, user-story writing and story mapping techniques. 

🔹Encouraging team knowledge sharing, pairing and collaboration and maintaining key channels and forums to support.

🔹Supporting team around simplicity and in being able to effectively break down work to deliver iteratively and incrementally. 🔹Supporting team around continuously reflecting and refining Agile ways of working and tools and agile best practices.

🔹Capacity planning to support team in being able to deliver at a comfortable and sustainable pace. 

🔹Supporting teas in gaining focus and clarity around the next most important items and the clear impact and value they help to deliver. 

👉 Ideal Scrum Master is

🔹 Advocating for positive change

🔹 Inspiring and encouraging teams

🔹 Fostering an open and transparent zero-blame culture

🔹 Actively listening with empathy

🔹 Driving decisions with data and a value-focused mindset

👉Essential Experience 

🔹Mimimum 5 years of experience in a previous Scrum Master role (it is as must)

🔹CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Certification as a minimum requirement, additional certifications are a bonus 

🔹Familiarity with Azure services and tools to support project delivery in a cloud environment

🔹Proven track record of working on complex migration initiatives

🔹Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Confluence 

🔹Advanced level of English

👉What we offer

🔹Flexible hours & remote work

🔹B2B type of contract

🔹English lessons

🔹Access to Multisport Program

🔹Subsidy to rent an office space, if you’d rather work from the office and you are not from Łódź

🔹Internal initiatives for knowledge sharing

🔹Happiness boosters (for example happy trips)