Scrum Master / Agile coach Contract Job Sweden (Gothenburg)

Inter-Consulting Group relies on the synergy between quality consultants and customers to form long-term partnerships. It is the success of building these relationships with key customers, coupled with access to our extensive database of skilled consultants that has seen us grow from billings of £100k in 2006, IC has a steady repeat tunover of £5M per annum, keeping its key consultants in contract, partnered with existing long term and new customers. The areas covered are Nordics, USA, Canada, Latin America and Australia.

Inter-Consulting has a track record of over 15 years of consulting in niche markets. Our core e-business model has zero overheads, delivering our service online with access to a secure database matched to each client's requirements. This enables your managers to review a pre-matched pool of consultants via our www server to accelerate the placement process.

Required competence:

-You have worked as a tester or/and developer in agile development teams.
-You have been working as ScM for several teams and more than one team at the time.
-You have experience of starting new teams.
-You understand team profiling from a personality and competence perspective.
-You are familiar with team development and assessment frameworks such as the Wheelan, Belbin DISC etc.
-You can assess technical competence and gaps in team competence.
-You have experience with cross functional teams.

Job Description:

As Scrum master and agile coach in a brand-new organization you will be a key figure in coaching new resources as well the product owners and the rest of the organization in agile ways of working. You will assist and drive the implementation of a tailored agile SW development and QA processes for teams with very different disciplines and personality profiles. You will drive team start-up activities and development culture initiatives and you will coach and mentor teams in concepts like continues integration and deployment. You will be a leader, driver, coach and team member all at once.

Besides the responsibilities of a scrum master for initially two teams in a start-up phase you will:

-Lad, coach and drive the development process definition together with the product owner and team members.
-Guard and implement the agile process and an agile mindset in the development teams and organization.
-Work with QA and architecture stakeholders to implement agile development processes in the team.
-Guide the product organization in how to use the development teams at an early stage to get rid of waterfall traps.
 

Wanted competence:

-You have a passion for technology and people and you are a team player and a leader.
-You are a good communicator and a doer.
-You can work and drive concepts by yourself or as part of a team.
-You are passionate for knowledge sharing and to build up and empower the people around you.
-You are a team player and a leader
-Native or bilingual proficiency in English.
 
Location: Gothenburg
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: 6 months, can be extended.