Scrum Master

Appscore is a leading product, design and innovation consultancy providing services that help transform and empower businesses. We work with Australia's leading enterprise companies (including NAB, Optus, Medibank, Harvey Norman and many more) to provide meaningful contribution and value since 2009 our mission has been to change lives through amazing digital experiences, revolutionize our customer's businesses by creating game-changing technology and drive digital adoption by creating user value in everything we create.

Working for us, you will be challenged to do things you have not done before, working on large scale projects to drive digital transformation for our enterprise clients across a variety of sectors. You will work with emerging technologies and tools that will help further your growth. We are fast-moving, collaboratively and rapidly growing. At Appscore, we get stuff done quickly
- there are not loads of red tape that you need to navigate through to be successful in your role.

**About the Role**:
Working with Engineering Managers, Developers, Business Analysts & Product Owners, the Scrum Master will be responsible for coaching and leading the squad on best practice agile ways of working, fostering an environment of high performance, continuous flow and relentless improvement. You will be the driving force that enables your team to be self-organised, promoting a collaborative team environment that foster creativity, innovation, continuous improvement and celebrate success.
Specifically, you will be responsible for;
- Facilitating agile forums (e.g.daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retros and showcases) and manage squad artefacts.
- Participating in the Scrum of Scrums for relevant squads with associated Scrum Masters to remove risks, issues and blockers.
- Tracking and communicating squad metrics (e.g. sprint burndown, velocity, lead time and cycle time, commitment reliability)
- Coordinating squad activities (from facilitating agile-scrum ceremonies to continuous improvement initiatives) to enable the squad to focus on delivery of customer and business value.
- Driving release management and production transition activities across multiple assets and asset teams, working closely with an RTE and respective service owner

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you will have;
- Minimum of 5 years working as a Scrum Master within a complex organisation
- Technical delivery experience, with extended experience in release management and production transition
- Experience across agile ways of working and delivery within depth knowledge of agile techniques: creating user stories, defining acceptance criteria and managing squad artefacts
- Ability to measure performance and create an environment of continuous learning
- Experience leading and coaching teams of 8 to 12 people
- Scrum Master certification

**Benefits**:

- Weekly Personal Training/Yoga, free virtual gym classes and discounted gym memberships
- Bi-Monthly activity budgets for every team
- Flexible working times to fit around your life (early start = early finish) when required
- Unlimited puppy cuddles from our office dog, A.K.A "Chief Of Pats", Missy
- A focus on employee wellbeing - Social activities, End of day "switch off" for work life balance, and access to the Appscore Employee Assistance Program with free counselling services, health and wellbeing discounts
- Optional flu shots, paid for by us
- Direct and transparent access to our Managing Director and Leadership team. No hierarchical red tape here
- Wednesday cheese platters
- Individual Learning & Development budget for upskilling and keeping up with Industry trends
- Personalised training & development programs (We have had team members get new certifications, do toast masters and so much more) and discounts on Udemy Courses
- Regular back to base days for all our offsite and remote team members

Appscore has a hybrid working environment. We are flexible with working from home/our office. We have regular team lunches, puppy cuddles from our office dog Missy, table tennis and an office bar available to all staff.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Appscore is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace which encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.