Scrum Master

About Inetum, Positive digital flow:

Inetum is an IT services company that provides digital services and solutions and a global group that helps companies and institutions to get the most out of digital flow. The Inetum group is committed towards all these players to innovate, continue to adapt and stay ahead. With its multi-expert profile, Inetum offers its clients a unique combination of proximity, a sectorial organization and solutions of industrial quality. Operating in more than 26 countries, the Group has nearly 27,000 employees and in 2020 generated revenues of €1,965 billion.

Inetum Romania is an important player in the IT services and solutions market in our country, with over 15 years of activity. It is a stable, growing and profitable company with over 500 employees who provides IT consulting services, infrastructure and software development assistance, digital services implementation and support.

In an Agile format, our teams work on cloud initiatives, application development, business intelligence, automation and digitalization projects that contribute to the profit and evolution of our clients. The diversity of our projects offers team members the opportunity for learning and growth. The company had a turnover of 20 million EURO in 2021.

• Knowledge and understanding of the Agile Manifesto and Agile methodologies, from a theoretical and a practical standpoint
• Awareness on technical practices: eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, DevOps
• Knowledge of Kanban, Lean Engineering and Lean Startup are highly appreciated
• At least 2 years of experience in Agile project using Scrum
• For large projects, at least 5 years of experience in Agile projects and 2 years as a Scrum Master
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence is highly appreciated
• Ability to enable the team to continuously increase product value
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Proven success working in a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
• Enjoys working with people (facilitating and collaborating)
• Attitude of empowerment and team building
• Fluent in English, fluency in French is highly appreciated.

General Activities
• Understands and practices Agility
• Provides leadership in the adoption of Agile practices, culture and values by teams across a portfolio of projects
• Secures and promotes the Scrum framework, tools and practices
• Facilitates Scrum events as requested or needed
• Assists the team during the framing phase of the product development in order to maximize the value creation
• Acts as the point of contact between the team and the organization to make sure the required skills are staffed allowing efficient product development

Activities with the Product Owner
• Helps the PO to achieve product objectives using Scrum
• Helps the PO to keep focused on value creation and customer alignment
• Helps the PO understand product planning in an empirical environment
• Ensures that the PO knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value

Activities with the Team
• Enables the Team to improve its efficiency and quality of deliverables by following Agile development best practices
• Motivates the Team and embodies positive and constructive mindset on top of Agile values and culture
• Facilitates project level obstacle removal and team consensus on solutions
• Coaches the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
• Protects the team from external interruptions
• Helps the Team to create high-value products
• Helps to understand the need for clear and concise User Stories
• Builds Agile dashboards and coordinates Agile artifacts delivery, including technology and business value deliverables
• Communicates on development progress
• Installs a culture of continuous improvement during development
• Coaches the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood

Activities with the Organization
• Leads and coaches the organization in its Agile & Scrum adoption
• Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development
• Causes change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Agile in general, and Scrum or any other Agile framework is understood and enacted. He ensures that the Team adheres to Agile practices, culture, values and that it understands the chosen framework's theory, practices, and rules (Scrum, Kanban, XP etc.).
He is a servant-leader of the Team. He helps those outside the Team understand which of their interactions with the Team are helpful and which are not. He helps everyone change these interactions to improve the performance of the Team. He challenges the Team to achieve best quality, user alignment, value creation and team engagement.