Scrum Master (Banking project)

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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.
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Familiarity with modern trading software implementation (Murex, Calypso, Orchestrade, Summit)
Languages:
English: C1 Advanced

Work arrangement
Yes