Assistant Manager, SCRUM Master

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

The BI and Data team develops and innovates internal Data and Analytics capabilities by working on numerous projects that involve the analysis and presentation of business data. We are looking for a self-motivated and driven individual with a 'get it done & get it done together' mentality and a passion for helping teams self-organise and solve complex business problems. The goal is to radically simplify existing processes and deliver within a fast-paced environment, while rapidly growing across our European operations.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

This is a delivery-focused role that requires a self-motivated and driven individual with a "get it done" mentality and a passion for helping teams solve complex business and technology problems. Strong agile skills and experience using a wide range of influencing techniques are essential for success, as is the ability to tailor methodology to optimise a fast-paced, outcome-focused delivery environment.

The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in driving continuous improvement of delivery processes and methods within the delivery squads. They also ensure compliance with the processes and standards of the Integration teams, including the use of DevOps tooling and documentation standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Keeping the Team organised, on track, and focused on key priorities.
• Maintaining the development team's organisation and progress on agreed-upon projects, prioritised accordingly.
• Clearing obstacles and protecting the team from distractions.
• Facilitating teams in overcoming dependencies, risks, and issues that hinder sprint task completion.
• Protecting developers' time and creating an environment where they can focus on producing their best work.
• Serving as an Agile subject matter expert for the team, acting as an agile coach to members within the Integration Team, BIIS, and wider IT PMs to enable the delivery of agreed-upon business outcomes.
• Facilitating Agile processes and ceremonies across multiple delivery squads, monitoring their progress and goal scope, coordinating interaction with other teams, managing task completion processes, and identifying dependencies with other teams.
• Developing Agile teams and methodology by ensuring compliance and continuous improvement of Agile ceremonies and other tools, creating and maintaining an atmosphere of trust within the team by facilitating retrospectives and feedback, eliminating hindrances, and keeping the list of hindrances updated.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
• Emotionally intelligent with the ability to flex styles across a wide range of stakeholders at various levels within Integration Team and wider BIIS and IT.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills to develop new Scrum Masters and continuous learning across the Integration Team and wider BIIS.
• Deep experience of Agile tools and methodology with a passion and desire for sharing them across the wider organization (i.e.: Story Point estimating, Technical debt management, testing, Burn down, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Strong experience working on AGILE and Waterfall projects and familiarity of framework such as SCRUM, KANBAN.

Desirable

• A relevant certification in Agile e.g. Certified ScrumMaster® or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner.
• Experience of running Scrum on Azure Devops.
• Experience to the Release Management and CI/CD process.
• Understands Service Management (ITIL) principles or experience of using tool such as ServiceNow.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Technology and digital services

From architecture and delivery of new IT systems to IT risk and security, we manage the relationships between the business and our Technology and Digital Services teams. We also help with the delivery of day-to-day operational technology and digital support to the rest of the business.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable."

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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