Brainbox Consulting BV aligning great talent with clients’ needs is at the core of who we are. We are passionate about our Consultants, our Clients, and our Partners. Our rich IT legacy combined with our unyielding care for our people and business is the driving force behind all we do, and we deliver!

On this journey, we are looking for a Scrum Master who is also interested to take on a wide range of activities.

Job Mission

You will be responsible for two agile teams. Main goal is to create a full agile driven mindset in the teams to maximize customer value creation over time. We work with SAFe, which means you’re not only working together with your teams, but you’ll also be together with the Product Owner, the linking pin between your teams and the other Scrum teams.

Role and responsibilities

• Be a Scrum master for two software scrum teams.
• Serve and lead the team at the same time.
• Take the lead and drive scrum events and make sure they are executed efficiently.
• Create transparency and alignment on scrum team velocity, quality of deliverables and happiness of the team members.
• Continuously improve productivity and predictability together with the development team.
• Coach team members in agile tools, scrum events and artifacts.
• Accelerate delivery lead time by increasing collaboration, optimizing structures in place, solving impediments and shielding team where necessary.
• Coach product owner and development team in incremental and iterative development.
• Coach development team to improve their DoD and DoR and in CI/CD practices.
• Be voice of the dev. team regarding forward planning based on team velocity.
• Continuously seek for improvements and embed such an attitude, drive impactful retrospective actions to completion.
• Act as software group ambassador.

Education and experience

• BSc or MSc in information technology, computer science, mechanics, or electronics.
• >3 years’ experience as scrum master in a technology environment

Preferred:

• Experience with SAFe
• Experience with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Bitbucket, etc.)
• Experience with working at a technology driven company.

Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills are crucial. You will work towards meeting and exceeding expectations and you are flexible, ambitious and willing to embrace the opportunity to improve. You will identify and understand the needs of our clients and be responsive, analytical and quality focused. You also like to understand technology and be able to discuss technical topics. You’ll mainly communicate with Team members (IT Specialists), Product Owners, colleague Scrum masters, Release Train Engineer, Chief Product Owner and Group Lead.

Skills

• Able to initiate, influence and lead.
• Team player.
• Active listening, giving feedback.
• Strong analytical view combined with pragmatic attitude.
• Eagerly looking for improvements.
• Quality driven.