Senior Scrum Master

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

At Genomics England, we firmly believe Agile ways of working are key to:

• Enabling openness, transparency, retrospection and learning
• Generating a culture of iteration and adaptability
• Building a sense of family, accountability and cohesion in teams/squads

Agility is core to achieving our company vision - to create a world where everyone benefits from personalised genomic medicine.

Our Scrum Masters are the cornerstone of Agility at Genomics England. They are essential to ensuring each squad is self-organising, inspects and adapts, and works collaboratively… all while delivering high value products that make a difference to the lives and treatment of patients in the UK suffering with cancer and disease.

As a Senior Scrum Master / Squad & Service Coach, you'll get to lead, influence and coach our amazing people, and ultimately ensure we achieve our goals through effective agile working.

This role will suit a true collaborator and people person - someone who understands where they can add real value and is motivated by facilitating others to achieve great things.

Skills and Experience for Success

• Deep knowledge and significant experience with Agile ways of working frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP
• Daily responsibilities of an acting senior - being involved in service level discussions, dealing with senior int/ext stakeholders, providing coaching to the wider business outside of your teams, being involved in overarching strategy discussions
• 6+ years of relevant experience in a Scrum Master / Squad Coach role
• Outcomes-oriented, data-driven, adaptive mindset
• Experience of coaching multidisciplinary digital teams to deliver digital services - from discovery, design, delivery, growth, continuous improvement to retirement
• Great interpersonal and communication skills; an inspiring team player, coach, and leader
• Passion for all things agility
• Good understanding of the holistic Software Development Lifecycle and previous experience with DevOps practices
• Solid working experience with the Atlassian toolkit
• A recent Agile certification (just to show you love learning!)

Please note: Although you'll mainly work remotely, this is a hybrid role, so you'll be required on-site between 4-8 days per month.

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to. The exception would be some of our roles that would require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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