EY Hiring For Technology Consulting (Delivery) – Senior Scrum Master – Manager at South Dublin, County Dublin Full Time

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

The team and the opportunity

At EY the Technology Delivery executes and drives end-to-end transformational IT-centric programmes and projects by delivering solutions, which encompass people, process, and technology. We tailor our delivery approach, in order to execute on IT and ICT Strategies, and realise the IT investments that underpin core business objectives for our clients.

The main services of our Technology Delivery team include:
We specialise in PRINCE2, Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and can adapt our delivery methodologies to each client’s preferred method of delivery.

We offer industry-agnostic accelerators for the rapid deployment of a portfolio management office function to support small and large-scale transformation programmes.

Our ServiceNow Specialists can help transform business with digital workflows for IT, Employees and Customers, enabling businesses to modernise operations, optimizing productivity, cost and resilience on a single platform.

We have a dedicated Systems Integration team that deliver and manage programmes and projects, which are underpinned by systems development requiring complex systems integrations.

We can quickly establish an agile delivery model using a combination of EY Accelerators, EY Methodologies and Agile industry-leading practices.

Our Operations and Service Management team enhances, transforms, establishes, and executes operations based on leading service management frameworks.

New technologies and disruptive change are creating exciting opportunities: to work differently, to work better and to find new ways of creating value for us and the clients we serve. As a Scrum Master, within our NextWave Strategy, Youyou will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects using Agile methodologies and leveraging your knowledge and sector experience and ensuring high quality service.

You will also be responsible for contributing to proposals and client presentations for complex IT delivery projects that require disciplined Agile project management expertise, and drawing on your skills and experience, creating innovative insights for clients looking to deliver IT Projects by adopting an agile approach. We are looking to recruit high performing individuals with a proven track record as a Scrum Master with experience in large-scale digital transformations to be part of our leading and growing Technology Consulting business.

By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will be helping our clients solve a whole range of challenges – from the requirement to respond to the ever-changing demands of the market, to participating in large and complex transformation programmes that truly transform our clients ways of working, As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.

What we offer and how we will support your Career progression

Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

Continuous learning: Personalised career development including coaching, experiences and formal learning so you’ll develop the mindset and skills you’ll need to thrive in the future. Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

Career progression: When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are.

Benefits: We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, with a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Your experience in EY will also include:
Free enrolment in EY’s Tech MBA Programme accredited by Hult International Business School

Discounted health insurance

Pension

The purchase of additional annual leave

Hybrid Working model

Your key responsibilities

Client Responsibilities

You will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects through methodologies such as Agile Scrum/Kanban and traditional Waterfall (when required), leveraging your domain knowledge and sector experience

Participate in presentations and proposals for medium complex projects or elements of highly complex projects

Working with client teams you will be responsible for setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions as well as hosting daily stand-ups and shielding the team from interruptions during Sprints

Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource on one or more services, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems

Understand all our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients.

Takes responsibility for the mobilisation and delivery of projects/products delivered in an Agile manner

Maintains focus so that projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies and are managed to realise business benefits to agreed timelines.

Identifies and advises on project level decisions that influence significant project direction and escalates decisions that cannot be resolved to the agreed governance forums.

Internal Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for contributing to proposals and client presentations for complex IT delivery projects that require disciplined project management expertise.

Be responsible for your own self-development, and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills

Actively contribute to EY’s Agile Community of practice

Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines.

Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative insights for clients looking to adopt Agile as a means of project delivery

To lead Technology Consulting engagements and support in managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for more junior level staff and managing engagement billings, and estimates to complete

Develop team members through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring

Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you ideally will have:
A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution

Additional professional qualifications, such as Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner and SAFe or Diploma Level in Agile Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body

At least 5 years’ experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes or at least 7 years’ experience working for a leading company, in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes

Experience in one or more of our focus industries including Power & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, , Advanced Manufacturing / Industry 4.0

Experience of one or more technology areas including but not limited to ERP, CRM. Digital Workplace, CX, Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics, RPA, Emerging Tech, IoT, Blockchain

Hands-on experience in Scrum acting in a Scrum Master role and working with Agile methods for software delivery e.g. Scrum, SAFE, Kanban, Lean, TDD and CI/CD.

Proven skills in effectively coaching, mentoring and motivating a cross functional Agile team (consisting of PO, Developers and QA) to improve the pace and evolve delivery practices

A proven ability to manage and deliver on software projects in a fast-paced environment

Have structured approach to problem solving and be a self-starter with the ability to work independently managing your own workload with an attention to detail

Be able to manage different stakeholders across the project you work on

Have a proven ability to be able to take a ‘big picture’ delivery and project management view as well as being able to work at a detailed level across a broad range of contract types and engagement approaches

Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences and ability to translate strategy into measurable business benefits

Ideally, you will also have:
Additional non agile specific accreditation and practitioner experience of a range of Project Management approaches including PRINCE2, PMI, PMOBOK etc. or Masters Level in Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution

Experience in one or more of our focus industries including Power & Utilities, Financial Services

Excellent presentation skills

Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills

People management experience

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives.

Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

CIPD 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Winner, GreatPlaceToWork’s Top 20 UK’s Best Workplaces for Women 2020 (Super Large Category) And Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 & 2020.

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If you are interested in the above role, please submit a CV via the EY Careers Site at: EY Career Page

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