Ricardo is hiring a
Role: Scrum Master
Location: UK Flexible
Role ID: 2023-1851
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc’s five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.
We are currently looking for an Scrum Master to join our Digital Services team.
Key responsibilities
As a Scrum Master/ Agile Coach you will help coach our teams on the agile methodology and oversee the development of collaborative agile teams (coming together from the across the business working closely with Digital Services) to ensure effective outcomes. The Scrum Master will be responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and tasked with encouraging workers and our leadership team to embrace agile methodologies. We need a scrum master to help our business continue its agile journey, whilst delivering successful digital projects, continuously improving our ‘one team’ culture with our scientific and technical domain experts across the business. You'll have the opportunity to influence agile decisions, and coordinate with the wider business and our customers about our digital delivery practices.
In this role, the Scrum Master is accountable for the overall running, maintenance and continuous improvement of the agile processes to increase collaboration, continuously improve techniques that promote adaptability and flexibility in the face of unpredictable circumstances.
The ultimate goal is to arm our project teams with the right knowledge, tools and training around agile methodologies allowing the digital services delivery teams to work efficiently and effectively in collaboration with the practices.
Our Scrum Master will use their coaching and mentoring capabilities to guide and help people determine the right solutions to challenges and ensure a consistent, repeatable and maintainable velocity within assigned development teams, and where needed, drive change.
Key competencies and experience
Desirable
Skills and behaviours
Working here
Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.
Wellbeing and work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Benefits
Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.