Scrum Master

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If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist .

In this role, you will:

• Lead the scrum team using Agile methodology and scrum practices to enable successful delivery and ways of working in the MSIT Platform Team.
• Coordinate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint demo s retrospective meetings and daily stand up.
• Co-ordinate where needed, attend, and provide input in Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Drive the development team to achieve continuous improvement, increasing sprint capacity and releases.
• Ensure improvement areas raised in Sprint Retrospective meetings are logged and actively taken forward.
• Engage with the Requirement Owners on the prioritisation of the Product Backlog.
• Work with the Development Team to ensure new requests are impact assessed and sized in a timely manner. Backlog is maintained and groomed on a regular cadence.
• Provide continuous coaching to the team and support with team member development.
• Attend QBR meetings and take ownership of preparation for Increment Planning sessions including capacity planning and preparation of planning board.
• Take ownership of the running of POD breakouts in Increment Planning sessions.
• Proactively identify potential impediments or risks and problem-solve or escalate appropriately
• Engage with stakeholders ensuring development team blockers are removed in a timely manner.
• Ensure risks and issues are logged, owned and mitigation plans in place / path to green.
• Ensure dependencies are logged, tracked and owned.
• Ensure definition of ready and definition of done is agreed.
• Ensure all Enterprise Technology standards are adhered to.
• Clear and confident communicator