Junior Scrum Master

Overview

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Location: Cheltenham (5 days on site)

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is a guiding principle. We deliver mission critical services in a secure environment while promoting a people-first agenda, community, and work-life balance. Our positive customer feedback and growth help us remain a leading IT solutions enterprise.

Job Description

Job Description: Scrum Master

Location: Cheltenham (5 days on site)

DXC Technology emphasizes hiring a diverse team and recognises people as vital to a great customer experience. We offer training, support, and tools for continual personal and professional development. Our aim is to drive innovation and modernise operations, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a better you, builds a better us.

DXC has positions for Scrum Masters for varying skill levels. This role will oversee projects and products for clients as part of a multidisciplinary team, and will be highly organised, dynamic, outcome-oriented with excellent delivery management skills. The Agile Scrum Master is responsible for enabling teams to deliver high quality outcomes, remove obstacles, and facilitate project meetings.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Run daily, weekly, and monthly agile rituals efficiently.
• Remove impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress or guide the team to remove them by finding the right personnel/process.
• Track work progress to identify blockages and divergence from allocated tasks.
• Guide the team, Product Owner and organisation on how to use Agile methodology/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style and lead by example.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.
• A positive and proactive “can-do” attitude, working with peers and colleagues to drive solutions.
• Demonstrate energy, enthusiasm and tenacity to achieve a positive result.
• A self-starter attitude, able to overcome obstacles and work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills.

What You Will Bring To The Team

• Guide the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
• Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and organisation and coach the team to higher levels.
• Leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without blame, with emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Knowledge of patterns and techniques for filling gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g., burndown techniques, backlog management, etc.).

Desirable Skills

• A recognised Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, PSM II).
• Prior experience on a Scrum team.
• Familiarity with software development.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).

What We Will Do For You

• Competitive compensation
• Pension scheme
• DXC Select – comprehensive benefits package (private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more)
• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more)
• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events)

At DXC Technology, we prioritise in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, and diverse work styles. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting