Our Fire team in Belfast currently develops software applications used to support and assist firefighters across the globe. We are continuing to grow the team over the next twelve months and are now searching for a Scrum Master to join us. You will work closely with our development teams to ensure that our Agile framework is followed and will help make incremental improvements so we can achieve our goals. You should have a passion for Agile and helping teams deliver. Come and help us to better support those working day to day, on the front-line!
Reporting to the Senior Technical Project Manager you will be part of our Fire Product team based in Belfast.
What You’ll Be Doing – the day to day
You will be working day-to-day as part of the program management team within the product engineering division. You’ll be responsible for;
- Ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team uses Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
- Facilitating and mediating agile ceremonies. This includes daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
- Collaborating across teams.
- Understanding the purpose of each meeting and providing the team some level of direction, as well as steering the meeting without interfering.
- Enabling the right conversations to happen, keeping the teams focused on priorities, using techniques to help direct the conversation and keeping team members on track. Having difficult discussions when necessary.
- Holding the team accountable to their sprint commitments and enabling them to make progress towards achieving those commitments.
- Facilitating working agreement creation, ensuring it is documented, helping the team check their behaviours, and reviewing with new team members.
- Helping the team understands how JIRA is used and that it is the source of truth for project progression.
- Capturing other documentation needs in Confluence (Scrum Meetings, project summary’s)
- Helping with work intake. Evangelising best practice with regards to requirements analysis and breakdown.
- Working with the Development Managers to discuss delays, roadblocks, or unexpected work coming in, and to Product and other stakeholders.
- Blockers / Dependency resolution. Helping get things escalated and resolved so that the team can work more efficiently and strive towards improving inter-team dynamics.
Who You Are - some of the essential things required to be successful in the role
- A minimum of two years’ experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience of helping a team understand the Scrum framework and the benefits of improved transparency, productivity, and quality
- Experience of helping a team react to disruptions, getting resolution quickly or helping the team communicate the roadblocks effectively and working out what to do with the appropriate stakeholders
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, documentation, and coaching skills
Who You Are – it’s desirable if you have any of the following
Benefits & Perks
You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to; life insurance, enhanced short and long term sick pay, income protection insurance, a generous pension contribution, private medical insurance including optical and dental, a health cash plan, an annual health and wellness allowance, enhanced paternity leave and pay, enhanced adoptive pay, enhanced maternity pay and more!
About ESO
ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We’re small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland.
Are you ready to Make a Difference?
ESO is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We invite you to consider opportunities at ESO regardless of your gender; gender identity; gender reassignment; age; religious or similar philosophical belief; race; national origin; political opinion; sexual orientation; disability; marital or civil partnership status or other non-merit factor.
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