Scrum Master

Join us as a Scrum Master at Peregrine Resourcing.

Location: Warton, Preston (Hybrid working)

At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.  

How Specialist Talent Works: 

At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries. 

The Role:

As the scrum master you will be working in a team, dealing with business demands, help coordinate products specifications and able to resolve potential issues.

Responsibilities:

Ensure that project goals, issue scope, and product domains are understood by everyone on the team.

Remove blockers to team progress and proactively help the team navigate how to make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future.

Implement Agile and Scrum best practices throughout all teams.

Help coordinate product specifications, sprints, meetings, sprint demos, stand-ups and retrospectives.

Track project progress and resolve potential issues the team could be dealing with.

Offer coaching and mentoring of Agile and Scrum values and best practices.

Use reliable sources to estimate how many deliverables are needed for each iteration.

Help employees write effective user stories and turn them into subtasks.

Coordinate processes and the product’s release together with other departments.

Help the product owner prepare the product backlog for upcoming sprints.

Actively monitor and fix impediments to make sure the product and its features are delivered within scope, time, budget, and expected quality guidelines.

Document all progress and communicate it to the upper management and stakeholders.

Work with Test Lead to ensure all user stories have appropriate tests assigned

produce sprint reports, such as burn down chart burn up chart, velocity etc

Skills & Experience:

Agile & Scrum Mastery: sprint planning, backlog grooming, release management, stand-ups, retrospectives, SAFE

Project Leadership: goal alignment, scope management, risk/issue resolution, cross-functional coordination

Team Facilitation & Coaching: mentoring Agile values, servant leadership, conflict resolution, removing blockers

Communication & Collaboration: clear reporting to stakeholders, documentation, active listening, negotiation

Technical Proficiency: Jira, Confluence, Trello, Azure DevOps, MS Office, Google Workspace, QA/test alignment

Analytical & Reporting: velocity tracking, burn-down/up charts, progress dashboards, estimation of deliverables

Adaptability & Problem-Solving: navigating changing requirements, improving processes, continuous improvement

Industry Knowledge: software development lifecycle (SDLC), release management, quality assurance collaboration

About us: 

At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want. We have a range of benefits you will receive alongside your salary.

Our culture: 

At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we’re always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it’s finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility. 

Our commitment to diversity:  

At Peregrine, we’re proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse