Job Description:

• Plan sprints and take complete ownership of Sprint ceremonies including Kick off and Retrospectives 

• Ensures that items are estimated before entering sprints and team is fully aligned and committed to sprint goal 

• Ensures that commitment to items in the sprints is in accordance with sprint capacity 

• Conducts daily stand up and ensures that task board is updated on daily basis 

• Work actively with the team to mitigate impediments impacting successful completion of iteration/sprint goals 

• Guides team towards principle of self-organization and provide relevant support using servant leadership style 

• Fosters an environment where team can reflect on its work and can progress collectively towards more mature model 

• Enables coordination between multiple sprint teams and ensures that they are aligned with Product goal 

• Effectively manages any influence of external stakeholders to bring changes when Sprint is in progress   

• Engages with Product owner to ensure that sprint teams have got good visibility of items in the backlog and ensures that any outstanding questions are aligned 

• Responsible for transparency for sprints in terms of progress via reporting which includes team velocity and average points per feature 

• Effective communication with various stakeholders such as Product Owners, Project Managers, Support team and Product Managers 

• Keep abreast with Agile Scrum best practices and trends 

Capita provide market leading resource planning software. There are currently over 1.5m resources being planned for in over 70 countries around the world using our software.  Our team of onshore and offshore professionals have evolved over 20 years in line with market trends, user requests and feedback from our strategic customers to deliver enterprise web, mobile and Windows applications.  With our HQ in London and distributed teams in Sofia and Pune, we collaborate often and closely. We offer a challenging and informal environment, along with competitive salaries and flexible working hours. 

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary up to £60,000

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave

• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice

• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more

• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology

• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

• Home based role

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.