Scrum Master


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8th September 2017

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London

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Position: Scrum Master

Location: London

Length: Initial 6 month's assignment

Pay: Market rates

Skills: Agile Transformation - Scrum and Kanban; Project Management; risk and issue management, planning and tracking, resource mgmt. Exposure to and experience of IT for Financial Markets would be a plus.

Clearance: Baseline Security clearance will be required, and will be obtained for the successful candidate.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver transformation of product development to Agile - encompasses the realignment of people, process and technology.

* Provide management oversight and leadership of the development team.

* Oversee development, build, test and post Go Live phases of work.

* Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.

* Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.

* Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.

* Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.

* Working alongside a Product Owner.

* Reporting to Product and Digital Delivery leader

Candidate Profile:

* Highly engaging, articulate and confident

* Has both - Agile, and Project Management (budgeting and forecasting, risk and issue management, planning and tracking, resource management) skills.

* Understanding of Financial markets trading systems.

* Comfortable with senior level interactions.

* Adept at bring together a single team.

* Presents themselves as a contemporary digital expert.

* A passionate agilest.

* Comfortable building transformation roadmaps, scorecards, developing and leading workshops and training, coaching others as well as more traditional report focused delivery.

* Experience of Waterfall delivery (as this will be a step in the transformational journey).

* Can demonstrate a focus on business and user value, who how to drive Technology organisations to measurable, impact driven decision making.

* Experience of leading on an agile transformation of the programme, interfacing with technology and the business to help build a contemporary lean, agile development practice.

* Deep level of understanding of agile development practices.

* Familiarity with contemporary good practice in digital product development including Scrum, Extreme Programing, Dev-Ops, lean start-up. Understanding of contemporary computing practices.

* Understanding of legacy IT systems, processes and governance, how to move away from these in a managed transition

* Able to describe, in detail a comprehensive and strategic approach to the digital transformation of a software product programme including people, process and technology.

* Experience implementing contemporary, light touch agile forms of programme/project management and governance that enable agile and dev-ops forms of working.

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