Scrum Master

Scrum Master - Ashurst Advance role at Ashurst Description About Ashurst Advance: Ashurst Advance is a global leader in innovative and digitally enabled legal services. Leveraging deep experience in delivery, managed services, digital, legal operations, and flexible resourcing, we work seamlessly with our legal advisory and risk consulting teams to provide fully integrated solutions to address our clients' most complex legal challenges. What we can offer you The future of legal services is at the centre of the firm's strategy, and we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our objectives and grow our unique offering. By joining us you will be at the forefront of change in the legal industry and part of a team devoted to innovation, global collaboration, diversity, and growth. We also offer award winning Learning & Organisational Development and Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging programs and a range of benefits including subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complementary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses (in accordance with our bonus scheme), flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few. About the role Ashurst Advance Digital (AAD) is the firm's technology and experience powerhouse. We work with our New Law business to develop differentiated services for our clients, whilst embedding digital as a competency for the whole firm through developing and enabling future‑fit tools, capabilities and mindsets. Ashurst Labs is the community within AAD responsible for the firm's experimentation environment, designing, developing and managing digital platforms, products and solutions, together with the curation, ownership and governance of platforms used by Ashurst Advance. It does this through the three disciplines of software development, product management, and data science. As a result of strategic growth, we are currently looking to hire a Scrum Master in either Brisbane or Melbourne. This is a brand new role focused on supporting the development of new solutions within Microsoft Azure. You'll work within our cross‑functional agile teams, and alongside the Labs team to create and support client‑facing solutions and internal initiatives. As legal work is increasingly digitised, there is an urgent need to develop new solutions to improve and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our firm to solve our clients' problems. We believe the role offers the right candidate a chance to join a team at an exciting stage of expansion, to see initiatives through from idea to implementation and to shape and drive transformation in a firm committed to outpacing change. About you Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Scrum Master role or similar, with a strong focus on agile methodologies and software development. Confidence and fluency in the language and tools of agile, lean and design. Experience working in a software development environment and excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (definition of done, user stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, automated testing, backlog refinements). A recognised Scrum Master qualification is preferable (e.g., CSM, PSM). Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira/Atlassian, and other agile project management tools for administration of sprints, delivery of dashboards, reporting and Wikis. Solid knowledge of project management fundamentals and practices within an Agile framework. Knowledge and interest in the evolution and transformation of the legal industry. Expertise and interest in generative AI and the risks and opportunities it presents in software tools and the development of those tools. Experience deploying GenAI enabled products or solutions is desirable. We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply. If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: for a confidential conversation. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies. #J-18808-Ljbffr