Passionate about data? If you want to be part of building the next generation of open source tooling for open data management systems, we’d love to hear from you.
A little about us…
- We’re mission-driven
- Open-source
- Have a great culture
- Datopian has been run using self-organisation principles and we are currently experimenting with Holacracy
- Love the freedom that remote / flexible working gives us
- We’re inspired to work on interesting projects (key clients include large public institutions, NGOs and enterprises)
We are looking for a highly-motivated and experienced individual to work with us as a Scrum Lead (Scrum Master) for our small, diverse and rapidly developing enterprise. As a Scrum Master you will be responsible for ensuring that the Scrum team follows agile methodologies and scrum ceremonies. Keeping obstacles and distractions out of the team's path, you will act as the interface between the Scrum team and other people (Product owners, clients and/or other teams) you will also get to lead project teams delivering for top caliber clients, with a lot of autonomy to do your role in the way you see best.
Scrum Leads (Scrum Masters) at Datopian work with Product Owners and delivery teams to ensure project goals are well socialised, sprint planning is well organised, and client needs are being met and exceeded. At Datopian, Scrum leads also take on various administrative tasks as part of our organisational structure for agile project delivery.
- Ensuring that goals, scope, and domain of a given project are understood by the delivery team and Product Owner
- Running various check-ins as part of scrum / agile delivery (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) and;
- Facilitating the work of the delivery team in general
- Administrative activities supporting project delivery, reporting to the organization’s Delivery Manager
- Excellent written and spoken English
- We’re looking for a candidate with a minimum of 2 years as a scrum master in a start-up / agile environment
- Someone who has run projects with an agile mindset and NOT someone who works at a IT factory that runs scrum but it’s actually scrum ceremonies with a waterfall mindset.
- It is preferred but not necessary that the candidate has experience in a professional services company though a scrum master who has worked for a product start-up that is willing to be client facing is also encouraged to apply
We operate virtually, so you will have the freedom to work from wherever you want (meeting scheduling permitting).
Finally, we offer an intentional work environment that will support you to develop personally and professionally and provide an opportunity to reflect on what really matters to you.
- Start date: As soon as feasible
- Rate: Competitive and commensurate with responsibilities and abilities.
- Location: Datopian is a remote-first workplace; experience in remote working is desirable (but not essential). We are currently looking for people in European / East Coast US time zone (we’re happy for people to work elsewhere provided they are available for meetings during European / East Coast usual working hours).
Please send a detailed and up to date cv to [email protected], clearly stipulating that you are applying for the position of Scrum Lead in the email subject
Company size: 15 - 30
Company type: Self-funded
Datopian is an internationally-distributed team, led by open-source and open-data veterans. Forked out of Open Knowledge International in 2015, Datopian creates, maintains, and deploys data management technologies for government, enterprise, and the non-profit sector using CKAN, Frictionless Data, and other open source software.