Our client, a multinational company based in Limerick is looking for a Project Manager/Scrum Master to join their team on a contract basis. The team develop, design and deliver high quality business applications, software solutions and services to meet business technology requirements. It is an open and highly collaborative environment with a strong emphasis on continuous integration, automated testing and continuous delivery. Scrum teams are encouraged to be self-organizing and autonomous. This position is responsible for the delivery of technology for critical solutions.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the Product Owner and Development Team to deliver on the Product Backlog.
- Lead and develop operation plans including application releases/updates, data/hardware migrations, and stability/performance improvements.
- Identifying project risks and driving mitigations
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
- Guiding and coaching the team to ensure Scrum practices and principles are adhered to.
- Ensure the Development Team is self organising.
- Facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies, that is, the Daily Stand Up, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment, on a continual basis.
Requirements
- 3 + years’ experience as a Project Manager Scrum Master developing software using Agile methodologies.
- Possess an excellent understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Solid understanding of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team role and User Epic and Story Creation.
- Experience with JIRA, JIRA Agile and Confluence.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work effectively with teams.
- Strong analytical skills and a demonstrable bias toward action.
- Experience in the following areas is desirable but not necessary – Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) or Data and Analytics
