Summary of day-to-day responsibilities:

• The Scrum Master jobs understand Agile and help stakeholders work according to the method for the benefit of the team and the projects.

Key accountabilities:

• Keeps abreast of emerging impediments, issues, trends, and assess potential impacts
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Customer:

• End-to-end facilitation of the Agile processes
• Drives continuous improvement and change, acting as a change agent to adapt processes to maximize productivity throughout the project lifecycle
• Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage impediments and required outcomes of projects for the business
• Identifies Agile team improvement opportunities and looks externally for best practices in order to increase team productivity
• Makes sure there is no hidden work, ensuring that everything the Agile Team is working on is acknowledged and accounted for in the Product Backlog, protecting the team from distractions
• Owns enforcement of the Agile practices and ceremonies
• Provides advice and guidance to the Agile project team, as required, regarding best practices in Agile project management
• Manages Work In Progress Limits, making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helps them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner
• Encourages the Team to look for opportunities to support each other (e.g., focus on higher priority Stories that team members are struggling with)
• Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the Team, promotes team building and ensures team engagement
• Coordinates and facilitates ceremony logistics and ensures all Agile ceremonies/processes are held and all team members are present and on time, in particular the daily stand-up meeting and engagement of control partners
• Works across the Agile team to ensure Agile artifacts and information are accurate and update to date

Shareholder:

• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for our business area
• Ensures respective policies/practices are well executed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
• Drives project execution that is aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives
• Adheres to enterprise governance to ensure that projects meet all the performance, quality and compliance standards and follows the approved methodology.

Must have:

• Scrum Master experience
• Agile experience
• IT/Technical background
• Agile delivery experience
• Jira & Confluence experience

Nice To Have:

• Banking experience
• BFSI experience
• Developer background
• ETL experience
• Data analytics experience
• Regulatory experience