AAD Group Scrum Master

The Opportunity   

We are Jaguar Land Rover, and we’re in Shanghai. We believe that all our customers deserve a great connected digital experience, and you have a chance to be a part of realising that vision. We’re on a journey to transform the digital future of our great brands, designing and building innovative systems and products for one of the world’s leading luxury automotive brands in new and exciting ways.  

We are building out a digital platform which is central to Jaguar Land Rover’s digital strategy.  The right candidate will have a central role to the development of this digital platform, how it grows and iterates over time, and how the teams that deliver it do to. Unsure of exactly what this means? Check out the award-winning iconic Land Rover Defender and look at the digital capabilities this vehicle has. Don’t just build another website - see the impact of your work as it makes a real difference to our luxury vehicles across the globe and to the customers who love them.  

We’re looking for an experienced Group Scrum Master to facilitate and lead our digital product and service engagements with JLR. You'll support the team in solving difficult problems, uncovering challenges, managing relationships, and ensuring our deliveries drive and exceed our standards e2e.  

This role is a unique opportunity to help define, support and grow a digital capability within Jaguar Land Rover. You’ll be working closely with our multi-disciplined teams with opportunities to learn and enhance your career. You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the strategic direction of the products we deliver, as well as inspiring and influencing the wider organisation as we transform how Jaguar Land Rover builds and operates digital vehicles, together.  

What we value   

• Cross-functional, customer focussed approach.  

• Dedication to Delivery, Engineering, UX/UI and Quality principles and practices.  

• Teamwork, collaboration and effective communication.  

• Self-improvement, team growth, resilience and positive spirit.  

Key Performance Indicators  

• Clearly understanding and expressing project target, milestones, status, risks and issues.  

• Ensuring the Development Team meet QBR goal and sprint goal.  

• Identifying and removing roadblocks probably and on time.  

• Report and escalating clearly and on time.  

• Optimize team delivery process and improve team velocity continually.  

• Follows the fundamentals of the Agile framework and facilitate team to ensure that projects are a success.  

• Ensure nothing is overlooked in the workflow.  

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities   

• A Group Scrum Master is a skilled person who focuses on making things happen, accountable for ensuring their squads have everything they need to deliver.  

• Providing enhanced value to the team and wider organisation with a focus on optimising delivery flow by utilisation of whatever methodology is best for the situation.   

• Ensure the agreed processes are effectively executed, maintain the discipline of the process within squad and protect from negative external interference;   

• Using data driven approach and toolset include JIRA, Tableau to measure the success of the process and proactively to modify the process for a better squad performance.   

• Running and improving the agile activities within squad a in effective manner include:   

• Hosting daily standup: daily to go walkthrough, efficient info exchange and dependency handshake;   

• Organising Quarterly Business Review (QBR): Planned deliverable with priority, right resource and right timing within wider programme  

• Organising Sprint planning and retrospect: Planning the sprint deliverables with priority, revisit what did well, what did wrong with improvement actions  

• Organising and hosting squad level showcase ensure the highlights of squad are well communicated and acknowledge by stakeholders.   

• Engage 3rd party stakeholders, identify dependencies and closely manage the dependencies so they don't become blockers  

• Support Product Owners and their stakeholders build, maintain, and prioritise product roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring they are deliverable at the right time.  

• Support the team training, skills uplift and innovation activities.   

Key Interactions   

• Squad members: PO, HMI, System engineer, Developer, Architect, Validation engineer  

• External customer: Management, cross domain squads (China, UK, India)  

• External partners: Domestic Suppliers, International suppliers  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience   

We’re keen to talk to people with the following skills and experience:   

• Skills: Fluent English with strong communication skills, having confidence to effectively express your opinion during debut and influence the decision. This is a must!  

• Skills: Expert level on JIRA, Confluence, Lucid board to organise your daily work and communication.   

• Experience: As delivery lead, one or more successful experience to design/ execute/retrospect agile practices that lead to high quality, on time delivery of the project in SW industry.   

• Experience: As delivery lead, we expect the role to demonstrate a high level of project delivery discipline not to the role itself, but also influence to wider team member.   

• Experience: As Group Scrum Master, successful experience on guide/ train team members for agile mindset, behaviour that leads to a good team culture.   

• Knowledge: At least familiar one or more sub-system architecture of automotive electrical systems or Smart Cockpit SW stack.   

• Knowledge: Building and sustaining team culture and spirit  

Personal Profile   

Any of the following will make you stand out as potentially a great fit for our team:   

• Great English and communication skills  will make you standout;   

• Think as if you are the one that trying to convince.   

• Have confidence on your opinion that cannot be easily manipulated by external pressure;  

• Your confidence shall come from a comprehensive view, objective, and thorough thinking, not blindly confident,   

• An individual who is resilient, energetic, and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs 

• Comfortable challenging existing thinking in a positive way, whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style, bringing diverse new ways of thinking and perspectives to the team   

• If you are reflecting yourself to fit above, then this is the role for you!  

The qualities which will help you thrive in this role:   

• Servant Leader – garner respect from your team and be willing to get your hands dirty to get the job done  

• Communicative and social – at all levels   

• Facilitative – lead and demonstrate value-add principles   

• Assertive – ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls when required   

• Situationally Aware – the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and handle/elevate appropriately   

• Enthusiastic and motivated   

• Continual improvement – growing your craft, learning new tools and techniques to manage yourself and a team   

• Conflict resolution – facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches   

• Attitude of empowerment – lead a team to self-organisation   

• Attitude of transparency – bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow trust.