Key Work Benefits
We take the health and happiness of our employees seriously and we’re consistently searching for new ways to make mkodo the best place to work. From retirement planning to a wellness offering supporting mental & physical wellbeing.
Remote/Flexible working
Generous Holidays
Tech Scheme
Employee Assist Program
Bonus and Profit Share
Birthday Off
Team Socials
Pension Contribution
The Role - Scrum Master
If this is the opportunity you have been waiting for, to work in a fast-paced company with cutting-edge technology, please send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Apply HereKey Skills and Attributes
For this role, the key skills required are:
- Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master/Product Owner (CSM,CSPO, SAFe) or equivalent professional qualification
- Excellent communication skills, with experience in influencing, listening actively and negotiating within a team environment
- Broad experience of working in a variety of Agile environments of different maturities.
- Exposure to large scale Agile delivery across multiple teams and geographies and the recognition that this is sometime achieved best with flexible working
- Positive leadership skills, with experience in mentoring and inspiring a team and conflict resolution
- Experience in the use of at least one tool for managing agile delivery (training and support with use of JIRA and Confluence available)
- Positive attitude, friendly to others, encouraging of co-operation, honesty and respectfulness in the workplace
- Understanding of Software development processes and procedures
- Collaborative mindset, with an ability to empathise with colleagues and establish relationships
- Understanding of change management and release processes
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of competency using Scrum practices.
About the Role
As a Scrum Master you will be a visible leader, ensuring projects are effectively developed, integrated and deployed with high quality and on time. Our Scrum Masters also coach and mentor teams to deliver critical, customer facing, enterprise class software development projects while continuously growing and improving!
Main Responsibilities
- Fulfil the role of the Scrum Master within a dedicated team using Agile practices
- Supervise and facilitate teams in all Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and daily stand ups
- Responsible for creatively removing impediments from the Scrum team so they can continue to perform at their best
- Create, maintain and deliver on project and work stream plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing understanding and needs
- Identify and manage the risks associated with projects to achieve project success
- Ensure that the Definition of Done is being followed by the team
- Support and educate the Product Owner on refining the product backlog and make them ready for upcoming sprints, enabling longer-term work visibility for reporting to delivery and management teams
- Demonstrate ability to influence Product Development and Management teams to improve product features and supportability of a product offering by identifying problems and suggesting and/or driving implementation of fixes or features.
- Work together with team during project estimation sessions and share understanding of projected durations and release plans with leadership team
- Facilitate the teams desire for creativity, continual improvement of efficiency and capability
- Measure team sprint success by using standard sprint metrics and drive team efficiency and productivity improvement through data points
- Assisting with internal and external communication, maintaining transparency.
- Influence others including those more senior on best practices in Agile
- Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and coaching them to higher levels of maturity.
More benefits
mkodo is a great place to work, with excellent benefits comprising:
- Remote/Flexible Working
- Quarterly team events
- Birthday Holiday
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Tech Loan Scheme
- Performance bonus & profit share scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Travel Loan scheme
- Supplies of fresh fruits, cereals, biscuits, nibbles, etc. in the offices
- Friday-evening beers
- Relevant training and training budget
Graduate development journey
Day 1
Grads onboarded as a cohort and focus on specific roles
First 2 weeks
Onboarding sessions and initial training
2 weeks
Grad team project with mentoring support
3 months
Grads present project to execs/senior leadership team. Start more compex project.
6 months
Present second project to the execs/senior leadership team. Grads join a client project team. Tech debt and support issues.
9 months
Start contributing to client deliverables.
12 months
Graduate from Grad scheme and become billable resource.
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Recruitment Process
For our web, Android and iOS engineering roles, we follow the below process:
For our roles, we follow the below process:
For our graduate roles, we follow the below process:
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Technical Exercise
You will be invited to a partake in a Pair Programming session with two of our Engineers, to assess your level of technical and coding abilities
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Skills Assessment
You will be invited to a second stage in the process to meet with more members of the team, and to show off your skills in your area of expertise. There will be the opportunity to ask any questions, and find out more about the role, and also to discuss your experience in more detail.
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
1-hour interview
You're invited to a second interview with developers you'll work with. It's a no-code whiteboard session to evaluate your problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills. Show us how you tackle challenges!
Offer
We’ll make offers to the successful graduates to join the cohort in early September
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Graduate Developer Scheme
mkodo operates its own 4-time, award-nominated graduate developer scheme across London and the Northeast. Check out our grad scheme page to learn more.
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