Scrum Master

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About YouAs a Scrum Master you are a true coach and mentor who can help the self-organising scrum teams unlock their greatest potential and guide the scrum teams and our organisation on our journey to become the best we can be. As a Scrum Master, you will always be focused on your own personal growth and will strive to learn, share and coach others in the business.The RoleYou’ll join a team of Scrum Masters that work closely together, within Scrum teams and with the wider business to:Help teams understand the why, not just the how of ScrumFoster an Agile culture and Agile practices within teamsFocus on delivering stakeholder value while ensuring team wellbeingHelp teams transition through key phases of team developmentExperiment with other approaches (e.g. Kanban, Lean) to adapt to the needs of the customers and types of workMaintain and grow our Agile Community Help the company adapt to meet its vision and missionThe questions keeping us awake at night that you will help answer:Scrum TeamsWith a continued need for remote working, how do we best establish & build our new teams?How do we scale up our teams to best deliver our products as we grow?How do we nurture our graduates’ mindset to develop and achieve the best in their career?How do we show our scrum teams a view of how our software is used in the real world?How can we create an experimentation culture?Product OwnerHow do we shorten the feedback loops internally and between us and our customers? How can we make sure that we are always working on the most valuable items?How do we maximise the amount of work not done?We’re trying new ways of being innovative (such as using design sprints); how else can we innovate?OrganisationOur agile transformation is a journey, rather than a destination, how do we continue to spread the agile mindset to every part of our business?We are a great agile organisation to work for (trust us!), how do we best promote this externally?Communities have started to cascade across the business, how do we make them flourish, particularly remotely?We are making great progress, but how do we measure success?

About UsHeywood Pension Technologies (‘HPT’) combines a passion for software with Agile methodologies to create modern software solutions for businesses, pension providers and third parties that help transform how their members manage their lifelong financial journeys.Working for an expanding established market leader, you will have a real voice to influence our evolution. Continued learning and progression is ingrained in our daily life, encouraged through a variety of forums from e-learning subscriptions and a monthly down-tools day (“Hive Day”) and communities of practice for learning and experimentation. Our open culture encourages wide participation and innovation.We also reward our hard work through regular socials, organised by our people. Socials events include fiercely competitive online quizzes, sporting events, games nights and much more!We are very fortunate at HPT to have grown our business during a global pandemic, remotely on-boarding over 70 (and counting) new recruits in the last 18 months.We are committed to a hybrid working model. We have empowered our people to determine if working from home or the office, under current safety provisions set out by official guidelines, suits them best; giving us all greater flexibility.Discover more at www.heywood.co.uk/careers