Why this job matters
The Scrum Master Specialist executes a range of workstreams in delivering Scrum processes, ensuring that Scrum and related practices are understood and enacted across teams and are supported across the group.
What You'll Be Doing
- Runs the Scrum/Agile iterative development processes to lead on-time delivery of product backlog user stories.
- Organises daily Scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings as a key part of the Agile team.
- Leads the Scrum process across digital and project teams ensuring that goals, scope, and product domains are understood by everyone on the team.
- Leads collaboration with Scrum masters to improve the application of Agile practices and cross-collaboration for delivery execution.
- Safeguards project resources and direct corrective measures to ensure project success.
- Identifies resource gaps and inform the programme and project manager to support and enable resource managers for outsourced services as needed.
- Highlights impediments, risks or blockers on timely basis with the team. Tracks to closure using either Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or collaboration tools.
- Drives communication between technology and BT Group through targeted communications and fostering open dialog with team members.
- Contributes towards the continuous evaluation and updating of the backlog with new or modified user stories that are decomposed, estimated, prioritised, and assigned to future iterations.
- Mentors other Scrum Master professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
- Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Scrum processes.
The Skills You'll Need
Agile Development
Continuous Improvement
Problem Solving
Sprint Events/Ceremonies
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
Stakeholder Management
Conflict Resolution
Coaching
Program Increment Planning/Big Room Planning
Agile Methodologies
Backlog Prioritisation
Decision Making
Software Development Lifecycle
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) Definition & Tracking
Growth Mindset
Risk Management
KPI/Metric Monitoring
Inclusive Leadership
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About Us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
