Scrum Master (Banking experience)

Project Description:

The project aims to implement Murex as the strategic derivatives trading platform

The implementation includes:

Murex platform deployment and configuration

Commodity derivative product setup

Market data integration

Trade execution integration with Broadridge

Data migration and reconciliation

Front Office and Risk

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that goals are understood by everyone in the Team

• Collaborate closely with the Project Manager and the team to ensure a healthy, prioritized product backlog is maintained, with particular attention to technical milestones and requirements for data integration.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), ensuring they are effective and proactively addressing technical impediments and integration challenges.

• Support the Team in continuously improving the effectiveness of their incremental delivery of value to clients & stakeholders, focusing on quality, stability, and compliance with Google Cloud platform technical standards.

• Deeply understand the technical and functional context of the supported teams, including high level functional requirements, system architecture, applied agile frameworks, environmental constraints , and the technical implications of deliveries.

• Proactively remove impediments to team success, establishing an environment where the team can be effective, and protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions, especially during release and deployment cycles.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that the team lives the agile values, apply agile principles, and follow agreed processes and practices, with an emphasis on optimizing CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.

• Ensure efficient collaboration with Release Management team, from initial planning and managing technical dependencies between teams to monitoring implementation and post-deployment.

• Produce metrics as the end of each Sprint to ensure the quality of the delivery.

• Manage technical risks associated with deliveries, ensuring clear communication with stakeholders and facilitating their mitigation.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 5 years+ of experience as Scrum Master or in a similar position, with a proven track record in coordinating complex software releases.

• In-depth experience in agile techniques and demonstrated success in supporting agile teams, including those with a strong technical orientation.

• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering guidance and leadership, both individually and at the agile team level.

• Structured and problem-solving attitude, including identification and proactive removal of technical impediments to agile team delivery.

• Passionate about coaching and supporting people to embrace changes in their way of working, especially concerning new technologies and delivery processes.

• A continuous improvement mindset and dedication to finding new ways of working, with a focus on optimizing development and deployment cycles.

• Emotionally intelligent, calm, open-minded, and collaborative with strong people management skills: strong communication, motivating, observing, coaching, and mentoring of colleagues.

• Experience with tools for agile team management such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Office Package, with an understanding of how these can support release planning and tracking.

• Experience with distributed, multi-location teams, with an effective approach to coordinating technical activities and deliveries.

• Experience in financial reporting / banking environments, understanding the regulatory and compliance rigor applicable to software deliveries.

• Solid technical background and experience in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with a strong preference for experience in banking, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation of deployment processes.

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating complex releases for software products, including planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, and managing dependencies between technical teams.