Scrum Master & Team Manager

Are you passionate about Scrum, agile principles and leadership? Do you want to influence the future of intelligent metering? Are you motivated by leading and developing the team towards self-organization and high performance?



Become a part of our Technology Software Division

Kamstrup is a world-leading manufacturer of solutions for smart energy and water metering with production, administration and development gathered at the headquarter in Stilling, south of Aarhus. Because of an increased demand for our innovative and intelligent solutions worldwide, we are seeking a Scrum Master & Team Manager for one of our Software Development teams.



With direct reference to our Head of Software Development, Electricity, and together with the other Scrum Master & Team Managers, you will be an active part in the management team, which is leading the entire department towards efficient agile development practices and delivery of high quality software solutions. As a Scrum Master & Team Manager, you have direct people management responsibilities for the entire team of approx. 6 team members and are responsible for team performance from A to Z. The team consists of software developers and a tester, who are experts in the used technologies and the domain. This Team Manager role includes ensuring that the team is motivated and works efficiently within the scrum framework by ensuring that the scrum values are understood and enacted in your team as well as in the organization.



Scrum Master & Team Manager with focus on motivation and evolvement

As a Scrum Master, your most important task is to fulfil the role as a leader and coach your scrum team towards living the scrum values of being e.g. self-organizing and cross-functional. As Team Manager your primary responsibility is to ensure that the team is highly motivated and works efficiently towards the delivery of a high quality and shippable product every sprint.



More specific your responsibilities will be to:

• Understand and practice scrum and agile ways of working and facilitating practices as needed
• Support the team to create high-value products
• Personnel management e.g. employee development, salary negotiations, recruitment, etc.
• Participate actively in our Scrum Master Guild, counting 10 Scrum Masters
• Participate in cross-team improvement projects, which focuses on improving the departments ways-of-working (e.g. Continuous Delivery and Quality)

Personality matters

You hold a Master’s degree within IT, Engineering or equivalent and have experience with personnel management and agile leadership and are ready to extend the traditional Scrum Master role with complete Team Management. Moreover, you have solid experience as a Scrum Master and experience in working with agile principles.

Furthermore, it is a requirement that you:

• Have a Scrum Master certification or similar and can effectively facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and print retrospectives
• Understand the principles underlying agile methodologies and how to apply them in building products and in a team context
• Know about the trends which drive agile adoption and the benefits of an iterative and incremental approach

As a person, you are self-organized and like to create results in collaboration with others. You thrive when getting the team to create great results in cooperation. At the same time, you can make a decision based on the knowledge at hand when needed, and are able to take the difficult conversation with an employee. You possess strong communicative skills which enable you to communicate decisions and information to your team and organization. Furthermore, you like to take responsibility and you wish to make a difference.



The job requires fluency in written and spoken English.



We offer more than just a job

We offer a challenging job in an international and innovative organization that strives every day to ensure the momentum and optimization of the world's water, heating and energy resources. You will become a part of an inspiring environment in a high priority area, where we raise the bar and always challenge the as-is.

We offer flexible working hours and numerous employee benefits, counting a healthy canteen, free fruit, fitness facilities, in-house dental clinic, hairdresser and a free health clinic. Moreover, we have an active employee association.



Do you want to be a part of Kamstrup?

Please submit your application by using the link below. Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis, and you can expect a response within six weeks.



If you have any questions about the position, please contact Head of Software Development, Electricity, Peter Stegenborg Steiness on phone: +45 89 93 10 00.

About Kamstrup

Kamstrup develops, produces and sells smart energy and water meters, relating reading systems, data analysis tools and services to utilities and other users over the entire world. Through our leadership, expertise and passion for partnership, we always think forward in pursuit of a brighter energy future; one that advances the performance of every customer, whilst creating lasting value for the communities they serve. We take responsibility for the way we act and we are committed to reduce waste with the purpose of securing clean water and energy to a maximum number of people.

Kamstrup has over 1.500 employees in more than 20 countries with headquarters in Denmark. Kamstrup has a healthy economy, growth rates and a strong focus on development of technology and staff. You can read more about Kamstrup on our website and see our annual report here. You can also follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook, to be updated on latest news and vacant positions.