Scrum Master- Regulatory IT m/f/d

Scrum Master- Regulatory IT

London- (x2 Days in Office)

£500-£600pd 

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are currently looking for dynamic individuals to join our Agile practice as Scrum Master allocated to a multi-disciplinary squad delivering a range of transformation projects.

As a Scrum Master you’ll operate at Team level as a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them reach their best and deliver outcomes.

The Scrum Master will be the link between the Product Owner and Scrum Team’s, ensuring Scrum framework values and Agile practices are followed.

Coach, mentor and motivate the Scrum Team’s to create new and/ or improve processes, make decisions and remove impediments quickly.

The role includes designing, implementing and managing projects to optimise customer journey design, customer experience, business structures and processes to support the operation of the Bank.

The role:

• Shape, scope and structure projects to create a platform for successful delivery, including the coordination of sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.

• Work with the Product Owners to define customer journey vision and design, handle product backlogs and new requests, ensuring effective prioritisation.

• Manage and coordinate project deliveries, project resources, remove blockers and coach the scrum team on Agile practices.

• Work supportively and collaboratively with a complex stakeholder network, including business owners, multiple Tribes and Squads to ensure alignment and prioritisation where applicable.

• Coordinate Release Management & Deployment ensuring changes are communicated to users.

• Manage the QA process to ensure all changes are delivered to a high standard of quality.

• Deliver robust governance and risk management in line with bank policies, and maintained through the governance frameworks including 3rd party procurement.

• Monitor performance in terms of volumes and quality against plan and provide advice, guidance and recommend corrective action where necessary, to enhance performance and ensure consistency of approach.

• Ensure all activities is aligned to the strategy and core values thereby ensuring fair treatment of all customers.

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Experience of working within financial services institution (Ideally Regulatory domain*)

• Experience working in a scrum team and successfully delivering business projects in accordance with objectives

• Understanding and application of project delivery including planning and tracking, risk and issue management, stakeholder management and organisational implementation in an Agile environment

• Excellent knowledge of the scrum framework including tools and techniques

• Effectiveness in leading, coaching and sharing best practice with colleagues

• Ability to manage and influence a wide range of stakeholders

• Certified Scrum Master or working towards qualifying

• Experience utilising project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro

• Strong knowledge of the financial services technology landscape

• Ability to collect and analyse information to solve complex problems rationally and make decisions on time for enhanced productivity

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.