Scrum Master

Location: ASTRA UTM, United Arab Emirates

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

For over 50 years, Thales has been a trusted partner of the United Arab Emirates, providing innovative and cutting-edge solutions in Defence, Aeropsace and Cyber & Digital, aligned with the nation’s long-term vision. With a strong local presence and more than 500 employees across three offices, Thales is deeply embedded within the UAE’s ecosystem. Thales Emarat Technologies plays a pivotal role as a key industrial enabler, fostering national sovereignty, self-reliance, and innovation. Through localization, strategic collaboration, and exporting ‘Made in the Emirates’ technologies to global markets, we contribute significantly to the UAE’s ambitious growth and development while helping build a future we call all trust.

JOB CONTEXT

Part of the Global Business Unit Land and Air Systems (LAS) within Thales Group, Thales AMS (Airspace Mobility Solutions) is providing leading edge airspace control and security solutions for the commercial and defense sectors, as well as digital solutions for Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) and Digital Aviation.

The AMS Business Line is undergoing a set of major challenges, airspace is becoming increasingly saturated, new regulations are being put in place, UTM is emerging as a new domain to tackle the challenge of the integration of new airspace users, such as drones and UAS.

UTM is a digital ecosystem of services (within a defined regulatory framework), provided to ANSPs, Airspace Managers and directly to UAS Operators themselves that manage visual-line-of-sight and beyond-visual-line-of-sight UAS operations.

Thales TopSky - AstraUTM Product line combines modular software, physical infrastructure, and premium services to enable efficient and scalable UAS integration.

MISSIONS

As Scrum Master of 2 stream aligned teams you will ensures team success through host leadership, leading rituals, removing impediments, orchestrating an agile culture and externally by protecting the team from the external interruptions

Your main activities will be :

• Support the team delivery
  
  
  

Facilitate the team events ensuring they are positive, productive and kept within the time box

Proactively mitigate/remove impediments and dependencies

• Support the Product Owner in the management of the team backlog
  
  
  

Coach the product Owner in refining, articulating and prioritizing the team backlog

Discuss propositions about the team organisation and contribution

• Improve flow of value
  
  
  

Visualise all work, measure and optimise flow through the establishment/optimisation of processes

• Create a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team
  
  
  

Teach agile practices and principles to the team

Encourage the team auto-organisation

• Report on the team progress
  
  
  

Build relevant KPIs such as burndown chart, velocity chart...

Ensure Jira data are up-to-date

Represent the team in weekly meeting for discussion and decision making about planning, dependencies management, sprint demos and improvements and problem-solving workshops

Share risks and opportunities

PROFILE

What are the primary skills / knowledge?

• Experience as a Scrum Master across multiple development teams
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.
• Use of techniques inspired by methods and frameworks such as Management 3.0, NVC (Nonviolent Communication), Lean, …
• Use of common tools used to manage Agile practices: Jira, Miro, Confluence, etc.
  
  
  

What are the desired skills / knowledge?

• Knowledge of software development techniques
  
  
  

What are the expected behavioral skills?

• Strong communicator with excellent team coaching skills, leadership, facilitator mindset, conflict resolution, and continuous improvement
• Perfect command of the French language with no mistakes or misunderstandings
• Strong command of English, enabling you to run workshops and meetings in that language
  
  
  

Summary

As a Scrum Master, you will play a key role for the teams. You ensure the Agile methodology is applied, organize and facilitate ceremonies, and help drive continuous improvement. Your support for the Product Owner and your involvement in the team’s day-to-day activities and rituals are essential to enable smooth, efficient development cycles. By setting an example in transparency, communication, and collaboration, you foster the enablement of the teams, helping to build cohesion and achieve sustainable success.

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