Scrum Master, Complex

Organization Description

The Group Business Solutions (GBS) division ensures the competitiveness of Euroclear by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our technical teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that doesn't compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.Employer Description

Job Description

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Role description

At Euroclear, the role of a Senior Scrum Master is to ensure that all scrum-based activities are completed in a timely manner, this includes defining and organising Scrum roles, sprint planning, daily scrum/ stand-ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. You will lead up to two Scrum teams, based locally and offshore and will be responsible for planning to determine timeframe, budget, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and assignment of available resources to various phases of the project.

Due to the complexity of these projects, we require candidates to also have experience of managing traditional waterfall-style IT projects and have a people management background or experience of directly leading a team.

Responsibilities

• Work with product owners for the intake of new requests and handle backlogs, resolving any conflicts that occur, essentially helping the team change effectively
• Contribute to coaching team members in the Agile framework(s), guiding teams to increased scrum maturity in adapting to an environment where Agile is not fully deployed/understood
• Interacts with people outside the Scrum team to coach them in the Agile Methodology to clarify how they can best contribute to the delivery team
• Defines the overall project governance and organisation, the deliverable scope, and the associated responsibilities
• Facilitates the oversight business, technical, organizational, management and financial aspects of assigned change
• May negotiate and manage contracts with external suppliers with the support of specialised teams (e.g. Corporate Procurement)
• May analyse product backlog items or requirements with the product owner/project sponsor/customer and with the support of the Enterprise Architect / Application Architects to evaluate the project feasibility within the scope of a pre-defined strategy
• Performance and achievements are subject to periodic review against targets

Skillsets

• Experience in wholesale financial markets, ideally with some knowledge of settlement of UK equities or bonds
• Experience of managing hybrid or offshore teams is essential for this role
• Experience of managing at least two teams is essential for this role
• A certified Scrum Master with evidenced experience in delivering change as a Scrum Master
• Proven record of accomplishment of leading medium to large project teams encompassing all stages of the life cycle from requirements through design and build to testing, acceptance and launch using the both the Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Certified in a recognised Project Management method – e.g. Prince2 or PMI (Project Management Institute) is highly desirable
• Able to operate effectively with both senior and junior colleagues in a matrix management environment
  
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