Vacature

Scrum Master

Brussel

Solliciteer

The Cluster Scrum Master spends most of the time helping the various stakeholders in/outside the tribe to communicate, coordinate and cooperate. In general, she/he assists the tribe/cluster in delivering their goals by ensuring a smooth collaboration on delivery and facilitating continuous improvement in the cluster. The Cluster Scrum Master helps the cluster to self-organize / manage, and reinforces scrum / scaled agile practices within the perimeter. Next to that the Cluster Scrum Master builds and maintains the Cluster’s main initiatives delivery roadmaps. He/she is able to build a pragmatic plan, takes up the necessary communications with delivery stakeholders and is not afraid to challenge architects, tech experts and teams on completeness of solutions to be build inside a given Business required timeframe. He/she maintains a continuous interaction with his delivery cluster partners Test Engineers and Release engineers in and outside of the Tribe.

Function  description    

Project follow-up

  • Set up and facilitate the Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Retrospective) and other meetings

  • Schedule and follow the key steps of the methodology

  • Guarantee a smooth use of the Scrum methodology and help the Project Team face any obstacles

  • Provide assistance or support to the Product Owner concerning the Product Backlog

  • Assist and support the team in the delivery of the Definition of Done (DoD), Sprint Backlog, etc.

  • Track team capacity and velocity metrics for planning and progress purposes

Project methodology and Coaching

  • Coach and challenge the Project Team

  • Help the Project Team face any difficulties and promote its gradual self-organization

  • Remove barriers to team effectiveness and protect the team from outside distractions

  • Ambassador of agile methods within the company

  • Provide to his/her superiors a reporting on the proper deployment of the Scrum methodology within projects

  • Risk & issue management

Ideal Profile

  • Language: Sound knowledge of English; French - Fluent

  • Education: Bachelor/Master or equivalent by experience

Agile requirements       

  • Agile teams are cross-functional.  All required disciplines are represented in the team (analysis, development, testing, … ). However, although team members have a primary role representing a discipline, they are expected to take on other roles and contribute to other disciplines  whenever it helps towards reaching the sprint goal.

Required experience / knowledge   

  • At least 6 years of relevant experience

Technical experience     

Mandatory 

  • Knowledge of agile reporting and follow-up tools (e.g. Jira)

  • Understanding of tooling on automated unit testing, automated functional testing and continuous integration tooling

  • Sound knowledge of software development methodology

  • Sound knowledge of project management methodology

Business experience      

Mandatory 

  • Expert knowledge of agile methodology and techniques (e.g. Kanban)

Soft skills

The Scrum Master represents and embodies the Agile spirit and acts as a « servant leader », which implies:

  • a positive attitude, with empathy, excellent communication skills and pragmatic approach: listen to the team and support the team in their problem solving, create an environment of open feedback and trust.

  • Encourages the sharing of knowledge and best practices.

  • Shows a pro-active approach to the development of competences of the team and each one of its members

  • Continuous improvement: There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting actions based on the feedback

  • Be a team player: encourages team building, based on collaboration and autonomy: use of persuasive power before authority, ask questions before giving instructions, support the team in resolving their problems before providing the answers.

  • Looks further than the day-to-day objectives, enable actions in line with the IT strategy