Scrum Master

Job description

Scrum Master

Location; Rathbone Place, London (5 mins from Tottenham Court Road)

Salary; Competitive

The Honeycomb IoT platform underpins Hive, a rapidly evolving connected home product now used in hundreds of thousands of homes in the UK and Ireland. Honeycomb is supported by a number of technical teams with a wide range of software skills, all working in an Agile development environment. With the growth in size and number of those teams, there is a corresponding need for a scrum master to assist the planning, co-ordination, tracking and reporting of complex tasks undertaken by those teams.

What will you be doing?

You'll report to the Head of Web and Mobile, and be responsible for helping administer sprints, continually seeking to improve the velocity, visibility and predictability of development activity your team. This will involve activities such as:

· Overseeing an Agile team (up to 7 members) as scrum master
· Chair cross-team sprint planning and retrospective
· Collecting and reporting s print and velocity statistics for teams
· Sharing best practice with other scrum masters in the business, and make recommendations for process improvements
· You'll assist the technical teams with administration of work backlogs and estimation
· Reporting regularly on feature burndown and delivery to stakeholders
· Keeping Jira sprint scope aligned with longer term plans (delivery plans and roadmaps)
· You'll report on planning, progress and resolution of tracked operational issues
· Allocating accepted bugs to appropriate teams and sprints after triage
· Assisting scrum masters from other teams in tracking dependencies with their teams external teams
· Assisting team leads within Honeycomb in tracking dependencies between their teams

To be brilliant in this role you will have/be

· Cross functional team experience (mobile and web)
· Knowledge of responsive web application development cycle
· Hands on experience and good knowledge of Atlassian JIRA (generating reports, dashboards, sprint agile boards, burn up / down charts etc)
· Experience running agile events (planning, retrospectives, demos, stand ups etc)
· Experience in conducting Scrum of Scrums meetings. (Large scale Scrum)
· Excellent communication skills, with a close working relationship with Product Owner / UX Design team
· Knowledge and experience with CI (continuous integration), automated testing, issue management, code review and deployment
· Understanding of SOA architecture and cross-team collaboration
· Experience with setting up Agile practices from scratch and/or agile tools is a plus
About you
· You'll be organized and methodical in your approach to work
· With your strong presentation, planning and organizational skills you have no trouble at engaging your time, delivering to deadlines and managing stakeholder relationships (at all levels)
· Able to work in a high paced multi team environment
· Your friendly and collaborative, but able to be assertive when required
· A technical background would be advantageous but not essential

The Company

We're the team behind Hive Active Heating. Set up by British Gas in 2012, we were given a simple mission: to make the connected home a reality for everyone. We're here to give you more control over their lives and homes and we're passionate about providing technology products and services that let our customers control and connect with their homes wherever they are.

We launched our brand Hive, by British Gas in September 2013 along with our first product Hive Active Heating which lets you control your heating and hot water from your mobile, tablet or laptop. We've also launched MyEnergy, a product that provides customers with helpful insight into their energy consumption.

Now, less than 2 years later, we're really proud of how far we've come. With over 150,000 customers Hive is UK's No.1 connected thermostat, and with our range of products and innovations we continue to go from strength to strength.