Scrum Master
We are looking for a Scrum Master to join a Financial Services / Investment Management company, working closely with development teams to drive Agile practices, remove impediments, and foster continuous improvement across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and ensure their effectiveness across teams
- Raise, track, communicate and escalate risks
- Maintain deep involvement in team's/project's day to day activities
- Remove blockers and coach the team to eliminate impediments
- Collect and report on metrics
- Manage scope and work closely with product owners to ensure backlog health
- Manage stakeholders and their expectations
- Ensure customer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle
- Resolve conflicts and issues that occur within the team
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
- Provide coaching and training to the team where needed
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master managing teams with complex dependencies
- Knowledge of and experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Strong sense of ownership, responsibility, and team-player mentality
- Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments
- Self-motivation and ability to stay focused amid distractions
- Ability to analyze and think quickly
- Ability to prevent and resolve conflicts and misunderstandings
- Knowledge of techniques to fill in gaps in the Agile/Scrum framework
- Showcase of successful Agile techniques implementation
- Proficiency in English at a B2+ level
Nice to have
- Prior experience in financial services
- Prior experience in a project/company that went through Agile transformation, with direct involvement in the process
