Scrum Master

Job description / Role

Scrum Master with 5+ years of professional experience. The Scrum Master will champion Scrum/Agile best practice and lead all Scrum processes, tasks and activities for a dynamic and innovative development team. You will be working with an amazing group of developers from Australia, Europe and Asia.

Our client is an Australian company with a global presence, part of an ASX-listed tech company whose shareholders include Cisco. Our client is market leader in a niche space that services over 25% of the global population. This is a great opportunity for a talented and ambitious IT professional to take their skills to the next level and to grow your career.

Responsibilities:
- As a Scrum Master you will facilitate as a subject matter expert and will take ownership of all Scrum processes, tasks and activities
- Taking a lead role in ensuring an agile environment and ensure the success of the scrum process; being accountable for the ultimate delivery of products
- Enforce Agile/Scrum principles in accordance with best practice
- Project delivery and team management are vital aspects of this position in assisting development solutions, enhancements and sprint cycle software releases
- Arranging and facilitating Scrum project meetings (daily Scrum, planning, review, backlog refinement, retrospective)
- Providing critical updates and project delivery dates to the Head of Development on product development or team issues and plans

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree
- Successfully applied Agile/Scrum practices and introduced Agile techniques.
- Extensive demonstrable experience of operating as a Scrum Master for a large software/product development team.
- Excellent communication skills with exposure dealing with senior stakeholders.
- You must be able to speak and write perfect English.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.