Scrum Master

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master to join a high profile financial services company to work within their Business Change and Delivery team to co-ordinate the delivery of bespoke and packaged systems, facilitating and driving forward the business change process with the effective delivery of solutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established organisation based in Leeds with strong growth plans to further develop its financial services offering. The role is hybrid with some flexible remote working with an excellent salary to £55K/60K plus bonus and attractive benefits package including: 26 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, Death in service x 4, Permanent health insurance, Private medical insurance or contribution towards gym membership and a generous Pension scheme.

Scrum Master - Key Skills and Experience:

Essential Technical Skills

• Experience working in an agile software delivery environment
• Experience as a scrum-master of co-ordinating, guiding and mentoring scrum teams
• At least 2 years relevant experience working in a commercial environment.
• Highly analytical and logical mind.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships
• Capable of identifying and challenging the effectiveness of existing processes; of proposing improvements; and of achieving buy-in from stakeholders.
• Strong documentation skills
• Ability to work at a detailed level across complex business processes.
• A positive and enthusiastic outlook

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Scrum Master qualifications.
• Good knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Project management and Prince 2 experience.
• Risk management.
• Experience of Change and Issue management processes.
• Experience using Azure Devops server, Jira, Confluence or other similar tooling.

• Working in the financial services industry or other regulated environment

Scrum Master - Areas of responsibility:

• Run scrums and manage project deliverables / allocate tasks

• Act as Scrum Master facilitating development delivery through Agile methodologies, with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements and sprint demos with the assistance of Product Owners.

• Work in close collaboration with the various product owners, system owners and development team; support the Product Owners with emphasis on maintaining and processing the product backlog.

• Guide the Development team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and ensure they are adhered to.

• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the scrum teams.

• Assess technical and resource constraints and their impact on our products and teams.

• Facilitate impediments / blockers and guide the team to remove them.

• Produce and maintain relevant metrics that help the scrum teams measure their performance, providing MI detailing the progress on development and delivery.

• Facilitate the IT business change process, ensuring design and delivery follows the process and identifying improvements to how things can be done

Please forward your CV at the earliest convenience to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth for further information on this exciting career opportunity for Business Project Manager. To further discuss our client, and the package which includes a salary to £60,000K plus bonus and attractive benefits package including hybrid/remote working.

Our client believes in finding and investing in the right people so that they can grow with the company. Focusing on helping people to succeed by providing them with the right tools, support and career development opportunities - demonstrated by their long-standing Investors in People Gold accreditation.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.