Senior Scrum Master (PR-34107658)

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands    |  Remote Working Available
Salary: competitive
Sectors: IT
Job Type: Contract
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In this role, you will be:
* Facilitating Agile practices and ceremonies as needed, eg weekly ceremonies for the tribe including weekly tribe alignment
* Ensuring Products in the Tribe and across the tribe are aligned in the Ways of Working
* Ensuring the quality of our vendors in Agile Ways of Working
* Promoting and demonstrating core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility (being an ambassador);
* Ensuring a collaborative culture exists within the departments , its (external) development partners and their product teams, promoting team building and ensuring the entire team is engaged;
* Identifying and supporting the team with removing any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments;
* Coaching the team in creating the product backlog, sprint backlogs and writing user stories in the most pragmatic way;
* Managing 'Work In Progress Limits', making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helping them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner;
* Removing all impediments to progress, facilitates meetings and enables people to resolve conflicts
* Leading or facilitating workshops
* Structurally measuring progress and maturity of the teams
* Working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization.

As qualifications, our ideal candidate would have:
* You have Bachelor or Master's degree;
* You are SCRUM certified;
* You have experience with Scaling frameworks, LeSS is a pre-requisite others are a plus eg SAFe
* You have excellent communication skills, are able to manage and challenge your stakeholders;
* You are a coach, facilitator and leader aiming to increase team's performance, satisfaction and motivation;
* You have enough technical depth and affinity with the product (eBusiness) to understand development and delivery issues within the team and judge their relative importance;
* Content knowledge; coding, testing, business analysis is a pre;
* You have worked in large organizations, an international setting and are able to work in fast paced environment, meet deadlines and perform at high standards

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