Agile PM / Scrum Master
CACI, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Agile PM / Scrum Master
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CACI, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 6 Jan | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: f31011b51d044e5bb1e4802f24928814
Full Job Description
As part of our growth strategy, we are looking to build on our existing presence in the MoD and related organisations. This role will be focussed on the delivery of a number of high priority projects with the MoD. As an Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master, you will be responsible for high level planning, project deliverables and ensuring high quality levels are maintained from both a project and people perspective. Reporting into the Head of Delivery, you will be responsible for understanding the customer's priorities and their technical challenges. You will also work closely with the rest of the Defence Management Team to ensure we fully realise the project deliverables and meet the customers' expectations. Responsibilities will include :
- Project Managing a number of in-flight projects, responsible for tracking, reporting, and managing risk, issues and budgets to enable successful project delivery.
- Ensuring the team lives agile values and principles.
- Facilitating meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Leading delivery from a position of influence, often taking a servant-leadership stance.
- Managing relationships with key business stakeholders, resolving escalations as required
- Clearing obstacles, establishing an environment where the team can be effective.
- Addressing team dynamics, ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.
- Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions. Due to the nature of the work, this role will be based 5 days per week from customer site.
- Experience supporting projects with Defence / MOD organisations.
- Experience managing software based projects in an agile delivery environment.
- Understanding of Agile principles, able to lead Agile ceremonies
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to handle difficult situations and resolve conflict.
- Ability to build and maintain high performing teams. Due to the industries we work in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.
- Flexi-time : hour weeks to structure how you want.
- Hybrid working : Work from one of our offices or from home - you choose
- L&D : Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials.
- Social : Fantastic culture with monthly social events.
- Future You : Matched pension and health care package. We offer a great L&D package including 5 days external training, a career coach and guilds to share innovation and learning. We also offer self-directed career progression, that fosters opportunities for success for us and our business. Equal Opportunities : CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, sex, gender identity, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination. As a Disability Confident employer, we will;
- Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on to discuss individual requirements further).
- Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview. Our people are unique and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.
Our Agile PM's have the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, so we want our team to have a proactive and can-do attitude to their work. We are passionate about technology and pride ourselves on keeping up with emerging technologies and delivery best practice so it is important that you enjoy learning and continuous improvement. For our current requirement, we are looking for someone with :
The Agile PM role is an excellent opportunity, and CACI reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes :