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Title: Scrum Master
Department: Technology
Location: Sheffield or Talbot Green
Working Pattern: Hybrid includes 3 days each week in the office
Contact Type: Full time permanent
Salary: Up to 60000 per annum
Tes is an international provider of softwareenabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core ensuring they are innovative trusted education solutions.
Role overview:
The Scrum Master is responsible for driving efficient Agile delivery ensuring teams can build and release highquality products that positively impact learners and educators. By fostering collaboration removing blockers and optimising workflows they enable teams to deliver value consistently and predictably.
At Tes strong delivery practices go beyond meeting deadlinesthey ensure that students teachers and institutions receive reliable userfriendly and impactful digital learning solutions. The Scrum Master plays a key role in aligning teams on priorities driving continuous improvement and delivering products that enhance education accessibility engagement and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
This role is key to driving Agile excellence enabling teams to work effectively and ensuring impactful solutions are delivered efficiently.
Initiative Scrum Master:
- Ensure initiatives are welldefined estimated and planned before meeting the definition of ready with agreed sprint goals and aligned Scrum Masters.
- Oversee ontime and predictable delivery ensuring initiatives align with launch timelines.
- Manage requirement changes through the approval process and address budget overruns as needed.
- Maintain accurate capacity plans and managing launch dates accordingly.
- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums to enhance crossteam collaboration and alignment.
- Support rollout activities Stakeholder communication Hypercare bug triages and conducting endofinitiative retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
Team Scrum Master:
- Maintain an executable backlog for the current sprint and upcoming sprints
- Ensuring sprint goals are clearly broken down into stories tech tasks and test cases.
- Support the team in delivering planned work while maintaining velocity accounting for justifiable variations such as learning or leave.
- Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies including standups sprint planning reviews and retrospectives ensuring alignment with approved initiatives.
- Escalate unavoidable slippage and ensure sprint work is realistic achievable and aligned with business priorities.
- Promote a focused approach limiting teams to a single initiative per sprint unless circumstances require otherwise.
What will you need to succeed
- 4 years as a Scrum Master in Agile environment preferably technology driven or EdTech organisation.
- Proven ability to lead multiple teams or complex initiatives ensuring ontime and predictable delivery.
- Experience in guiding teams on Agile principles improving Agile maturity and driving continuous improvement.
- Experienced in facilitating Agile ceremonies and fostering collaboration for improved efficiency.
Knowledge
- Strong understanding of Scrum Kanban SAFe and Lean with the ability to adapt Agile practices based on team and business needs.
- Proficient in JIRA Confluence Azure DevOps or similar Agile project management tools for backlog management and reporting.
- Understanding of software development processes DevOps or cloud technologies is a plus.
Skills
- Skilled in tracking managing and reporting on key delivery metrics such as velocity predictability WIP lead and cycle time.
- Ability to communicate effectively across technical and nontechnical teams ensuring alignment and clarity.
- Adept at stakeholder management skills working closely with Product Owners Engineering and Leadership to align priorities and remove blockers.
- Proactive in identifying delivery risks managing dependencies and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Capable of adapting Agile processes where necessary and promoting a culture of innovation.
- Comfortable in fastpaced environments balancing shortterm with longterm process improvements.
Qualifications
- Certified Scrum Master certification (CSM PSM SSM or equivalent).
- General leadership & Project Management certification (PMP Green/ Black belt Lean Six Sigma LeSS Practitioner or equivalent) ideally but not mandatory.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business or Project Management ideally but not mandatory.
What do you get in return
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30
- 5 pension after probation
- State of the art city centre offices
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Discounted city centre parking
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Monthly Tes Socials
- Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu
Who are Tes
Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing continuous professional development safeguarding SEND provision flexibility through timetabling and pupil behaviour management.
Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.
Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling SEND provision and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.
Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices including in London Sheffield Hong Kong Sydney and Dubai.
We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.
Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex colour religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.
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