Agile Scrum Master - DV Cleared

Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Location: Aldershot (on site 5 days a week, no negotiation)

Pay rate: £710pd Inside IR35

Duration: 6 months

Position: Agile Scrum Master - DV Cleared

You must have active DV clearance used within the last 6 months.

Scum Master role covering a development team doing infrastructure and applications development. The role will play a critical role in embedding Agile practices within the project, driving performance and delivery, and being accountable for creating motivated and high performing squad(s).

9 - 5, Monday to Friday No planned overtime No travel 5 days a week on client site

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Will promote discipline agile working using SAFe

Enable the 'project factory' teams to adopt scaled agile and scrum ways of working, including program increment planning and Scrum behaviors.

Responsible for the scrum teams meeting

Regularly liaise with the client to keep them informed of project progress

Responsible for customer satisfaction targets

Enable teams to make use of customer specified tools in the engineering process.

Essential Skills:

Scrum agile ways of working

Experience with multiple of the below

Secure infrastructure domain experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field preferred

Experience working with configuration management, defect tracking, query tools and other software productivity tools.

Proactive and highly organised, with good time management and planning skills.

Able to meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure.

Desirable to have knowledge of Scrum/Agile ways of working

Experience with the following would be beneficial:

o Git

o Nexus

o Vault

o Packer

o Selenium

o UFT

o LoadRunner

o Scripting

o SonarQube

o ZAP

o Azure DevOps Server

o Agility by Digital.ai (formely CollabNet VersionOne)

Experience in the secure infrastructure domain is desirable.

Scrum and/or Scaled Agile certification is highly desirable.

Preferable to have worked within a secure environment, have an understanding of low-to-high side migrations and working collaboratively to achieve security accreditation

Experience in CI/CD pipeline deployment, deployment and complex agile programme delivery would also be useful.

Can do attitude - able to apply experience to accommodate CI/CD pipeline implementation/deployment guardrails resulting from mandated security constraints

Must be willing to undergo DV clearance to join MOD account

Your Key Attributes

An interest and aptitude for working in IT

Attention to detail with a pragmatic and enthusiastic attitude to work.

Keen to learn new technologies and expand on existing experience

Good problem solving, analytical and logical skills needed to assist solving business application problems

Good verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work independently as well as within a dynamic team

Can-do, will-do attitude

Good analysis skills to listen to client and articulate back for feedback and solutions

Good personal computer and business solutions software skills

Ability to publicly represent company with internal and external clients

Ability to convey a strong presence, professional image, and deal confidently with business problems

Ability to communicate technical and business matters clearly in lay terms for comprehension by multiple audiences

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple shifting priorities

Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment

Skills& experience rather than the years.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field preferred