Scrum Master Specialist

Recruiter: Rakshanda Arora

Hiring Manager: Ravinder Singh

Career Grade: D

About the role

The Scrum Master Specialist executes a range of workstreams in delivering Scrum processes, ensuring that Scrum and related practices are understood and enacted across teams and are supported across the group.

What you’ll be doing

1. Runs the Scrum/Agile iterative development processes to lead on-time delivery of product backlog user stories.
2. Organises daily Scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings as a key part of the Agile team.
3. Leads the Scrum process across digital and project teams ensuring that goals, scope, and product domains are understood by everyone on the team.ÂÂ
4. Leads collaboration with Scrum masters to improve the application of Agile practices and cross-collaboration for delivery execution.
5. Safeguards project resources and direct corrective measures to ensure project success.
6. Identifies resource gaps and inform the programme and project manager to support and enable resource managers for outsourced services as needed.
7. Highlights impediments, risks or blockers on timely basis with the team. Tracks to closure using either Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or collaboration tools.
8. Drives communication between technology and BT Group through targeted communications and fostering open dialog with team members.
9. Contributes towards the continuous evaluation and updating of the backlog with new or modified user stories that are decomposed, estimated, prioritised, and assigned to future iterations.
10. Mentors other Scrum Master professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
11. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Scrum processes.

Essential Skills / Experience

Desirable Skills / Experience

Our Package

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.