Scrum Master

Role Description

Private Bank in Deutsche Bank is executing a program that provides shared group-wide technology services and governance that enable efficient, secure, and controlled distribution and usage of data. It serves as the strategic architecture component for exchanging primarily end-of-day data between data producers (mainly CB, IB, PB) and data consumers (mainly Finance, Risk, Treasury, AFC & Compliance). PB is in Agile set up, running sprints to deliver business functionalities. For one of the squads, we are looking for a scrum master.

The Scrum Master operates at Squad level, and is a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them maximize the value created by the Squad. They will do this by helping the team understand Agile theory, practices and values and translating this into practice by running the standard Agile ceremonies. The Scrum master develops and leads multi-discipline team(s), helping them to deliver value by facilitating progress and coaching them into a self-organized team. The Scrum Master will also coordinate with the different squads and release management to ensure successful delivery of features in production.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop the Squad as a self-organised team that is responsible and accountable for delivering business value
• Provide Agile coaching & leadership to the Squad team members to embed the Agile values and practices
• Plan and coordinate with other Squads to ensure proper delivery of own squad scope and cross squad features in production

Your skills and experience

• Knowledge and experience in agile principles and frameworks: e.g. Scrum, SAFe 7 years to 10 years
• Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair working, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Familiar with tools for agile team management: e.g. JIRA, Confluence
• Goods skills of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
• Scrum Master certified and experienced
• Understand and promote agile values: FROCC (Focus, Respect, Openness, Commitment, and Courage)
• A great team player who is comfortable helping point out impediments
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Experience with distributed, multi-locations teams
• Able to inspire and motivate people and multi-disciplinary, self-organised teams
• Experience or technical knowledge in financial environments is a plus
• Professional level of English
• Experience in software development lifecycle would be preferred