Scrum Master / Agile Leader

Onsite / Praha 8 /
Onsite
Lokation: Prague 8
Languages: Fluent in English and Czech

Level: Senior
Form of cooperation: Contraktor
Start date: asap
Allocation: Full-Time
Allocation length: Long term

Field of aktivity:

  • Our Operational teams are responsible for monitoring, deployments, infrastructure administration and customer service/incident management of Energy Production critical applications, namely Intraday Power, Commodity Futures and OTC cleared derivatives; most of which are tradable 24/7, 365 days a year. Your regular responsibilities mainly involve living scrum/agile processes with multiple Agile Operational teams on daily basis – balancing carefully agile/scrum methodological recommendations with operational needs.
  • Your long-term initiatives will focus on cooperation with Product owners, Scrum masters and other stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and thrive of our agile methodologies and processes. 

Tasks/responsibilities:

  • Provide Agile leadership to our distributed Operational teams.
  • Maintain and foster an environment that enables teams to embrace agile methodologies.
  • Collaborate with the team to deliver value through improved product development processes.
  • Work closely with the Product Owner and Operational teams on continuous improvement of processes according to the team and stakeholders needs.
  • Monitor progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements. 
  • Live day to day life with the team to feel teams dynamics and moderate eventual tensions coming from customers

Minimum Qualifications/required skills

  • University degree in Information Technology or
  • 3+ years’ prior experience of scrum master
  • Passion for Agile, Strong understating of Agile working models
  • Internal
  • Comprehensive knowledge of agile principles and practices
  • Be able to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure
  • Hands-on experience in software development and people management.
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills 
  • Willingness to learn and understand product technical specifics.
  • Continuous agile process methodology improvements suggestions

Additionally Desired Skills:

  • Knowledge of the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework or other agile frameworks.
  • May help for the job:
  • Understanding and/or experience with DevOps
  • Awareness About Continuous Integration (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis).
  • Experience with high criticality 24/7 environments