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 Masters  who is also interested to take on a wide range of activities.

Introduction to the job
As Scrum Master you are a servant leader with strong coaching skills and broad Scaled Agile experiences you train your team(s) on Scrum practices, facilitate Scrum events and continuously stimulate your team(s) to improve to highly autonomous yet highly aligned team(s). You are working in close consultation with the Release Train Engineer and other Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train for HR. You will be helping your team reach new heights with regards to predictability, quality and collaboration within the team, but also within the ART. All of this includes guidance to offshore team members.

Role and responsibilities

• Facilitates the team in getting the work done
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
• Creates transparency and alignment on team speed, quality of deliverables and happiness Signals and helps to remove impediments to ensure the Agile team gets the work done
• Facilitates the team to ensure quality related to own discipline is secured in the team
• Creates focus in the team by shielding them from external interferences
• Provides analyses of current team rituals, evaluates bottlenecks and advice regarding improvements in team rituals
• Helps the people around the team to understand which interaction with the team is helpful or not
• Coaches the team with handling dependencies and risks
• Align with the Release Train Engineer
• Coaches the team to have pre-conditions in place to start a work item (Definition of Ready)

Education and experience

• Master or Bachelor degree
• Ideally Agile + SAFe certified (scrum.org and/or SAFe®certifications)
• Experience in IT environments of corporate organizations

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

Expected behavior

• Coaches on agile practices and behavior for everybody in and around the scrum team
• Builds team and coaches team members to act as a team
• Acts as a servant leader and escalation level for the team
• Chairs and drives the rituals (scrum, sprint and program increment), ensures its disciplined execution, helping the team to understand why this is important
• Drives team level continuous improvement, i.e. challenges the team in view of the agile key performance parameters towards greater efficiency
• Ensures alignment with other Scrum Masters on dependencies
• Ensures focus and keeps the teams from getting distracted
• Ensures collaboration between scrum teams

Personal skills

• Excellent English communication and presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly-motivated, with a strong work ethic and able to work effectively under minimal supervision
• Team building and facilitation, removing roadblocks and knows everything about scrum