Technology Scrum Master, Financial Crime Technology

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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description

Join us as a Technology Scrum Master, Financial Crime Technology

• We’re looking for an experienced Scrum Master to drive a culture of continuous improvement
• You’ll make sure that your team lives by the values of Scrum, empowering them to become high performing to increase the productivity, transparency, frequency and quality of delivery
• Hone your project skills as you work with talented people in collaborative and innovative environment, with access to the bank's Agile community, experts and events
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an advertised office or hub, minimum two days per week
  
  
  

What you'll do

This role will see you coaching and guiding your team to perform at their highest level and at a sustainable pace. You’ll remove any impediments to progress, facilitate meetings, protect the team from outside influences or distractions and work with the product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as process owner for the team, and maintaining the relationship with the project's key stakeholders
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Encouraging the team to build relationships to promote internal and external communication, improving transparency, and sharing information with all interested parties
  
  
  

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience of Financial Crime domain, preferable Transaction Monitoring and successful Scrum adoption along with a Scrum Master certification. You'll need experience in leading migration projects like CoreNet to PNF migration or AWS migration, knowledge of modern development practices and tools, such as extreme programming, test-driven development and continuous integration.

You’ll also need an understanding of all aspects of technology, planning, development, quality, DevOps and Governance, as well as experience of building a culture of transparency within feature teams by empowering individuals and inspiring a collaborative team performance.

We'll look to you to demonstrate:

• Case Management experience in technology to lead the team effectively
• A background in coaching cross-functional teams into high performing teams
• Experience of leading projects with the necessary domain knowledge
• Experience of changing organisational, team or department mindsets and structure
• An understanding and experience of applying empirical process control
• Strong knowledge of the Agile manifesto and its principles
• Experience of automated testing frameworks