Scrum Master

The Scrum Master is a member of the squad who coaches the squad on Agile principles and practices as well as teaching, facilitating, coaching, mentoring and consulting on Agile techniques and ceremonies. The Scrum Master helps to maximise squad productivity? to a sustainable and predictable velocity. The Scrum Master will also help embed continuous learning with the aim to lead the squad members to self-sufficiency.The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the scrum team. They help those outside the scrum team understand Agile ways of working and which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which are less, facilitating everyone to improve these interactions to maximize the value created by the scrum team. Typically reports to the Chapter Lead.

Role purpose: The **Scrum Master** will take overall responsibility for establishing and improvement of agile methodologies within the various cloud migration teams. The Scrum Master will support 4 squads in the Cloud Migration Service organization. The primary focus is the creation of a next generation Business Intelligence and Analytic solution running in Google Cloud and the associated data pipelines for evolution of the solution. Ensuring proper collection of business requirements with customers and partners to enable functional and technical design of changes. We are replacing all the existing business intelligence solutions in each country into a single solution for the whole of Vodafone.

This role will lead virtual teams in agile and lean practices, solve / unblock issues between teams and departments at the highest level, lead the team through the full product lifecycle to successful delivery.

The role will need to bridge/resolve challenges driven by the distributed location of the resources with specific attention on building trust between team and product owners, reducing misunderstanding from poor communication, enforce ability to ask the right question, assure clarity on direction, priorities and targets.

Creation of recommendation and evidence of metrics/procedures aiming to increase the product development quality and team productivity will be part of role responsibilities.
**Key activities will include**:

Train, measure, challenge delivery team through a path of continuous improvements.
- Ensure positive and constructive communication between Product Owner and team members.
- Makes sure that all what described in the relevant and approved design is clear and delivered with the right level of quality.
- Make sure products produced do not introduce regressions. Enforce importance of high quality delivery, assure covereage of positive and negative testing, building o solid shippable products.
- Monitor and report on quality of all aspects of the team delivery accountability: design, documentation, implementation, testing, operational guidelines.
- Contribute to enhance / optimize processes, quality, performances.
**What you bring?**
- Experience with system integration covering all key aspects of IT (Application Development, Data, Test, Deployment, Operations. Infrastructure, Connectivity)
- Experience in dealing with an international, multi-cultural and distributed team with complex reporting lines (onshore,offshore and local markets)
- Ability to work in any country and to travel during the implementation phases.
- Agile certification is a must together with project management proven experience (CSM/PSM Certified)
- Google Cloud Platform experience / certification is preferred.
- Scaled Agile Certification (preferable)
- Continuous Delivery, Integration, Testing proved experience will be preferred.
- Understanding of cloud based solutions preferably GCP (optional)
- Experience with Jira and burn down, burn up charts.

At Vodafone we are concerned about being a company committed to diversity as an engine of change. We are proud to offer equal opportunities regardless of race, nationality, cultural origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and religious or political beliefs.