Scrum Master

Are you an experienced Scrum Master or Project Manager with passion for Agile and Scrum? Join us as a Scrum Master, where you will play a crucial role in guiding our teams through the transition from classical delivery methodologies to Agile. This role is ideal for a Scrum Master or a professional with a project management background in Agile and Scrum contexts, ready to foster a culture of high-performing teams, continuous improvement, and relentless commitment to value delivery.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Leadership and Coaching: Act as a servant leader, guiding Agile team(s) through their transformation journey. Develops the agile team’s way of working across Empowerment, Transparency, Collaboration and Discipline.
• Team Evolution: Support Agile team(s) in evolving into high-performing entities, fostering self-organization, collaboration, continuous flow and relentless improvement.
• Facilitation and Support: Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies, events and artifacts. Support Product Owners in effective product and backlog management.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with stakeholders, Product Owners and Agile teams to establish clear goals, priorities and a shared understanding of requirements.
• Obstacle Removal: Identify and proactively remove obstacles and impediments for Agile team(s). Assist in conflict resolution and ensure smooth workflow.
• Best Practices and Quality Standards: Drive the adoption of best practices, metrics and quality standards. Optimize team performance through data-driven decision-making.
• Representation: Represent Agile team(s) in Scrum of Scrums and other relevant meetings. Engage with the Agile community and leadership.
• Change Management: Act as a change agent, ensuring the organization understands the benefits of Agile methodologies. Model and enable Agile behaviours.
• Project Management: Adhere to our client Project Delivery Framework. Support identification of project needs, including resources, team members and involvement of other departments. Manage dependencies.

YOUR PROFILE

• University degree in an IT, Finance or relevant field.
• Scrum Master certification is a must
• Proven experience as Scrum Master, or Project Manager in an Agile/Scrum delivery context in the information technology and/or finance sector.
• Customer oriented with focus to support an organization in developing and providing solutions
• Very good understanding of software lifecycle and its operational management.
• Proven stakeholder manager, experience in training & workshop management, ability to visualize.
• Experience in facilitation, coaching, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Miro and other common agile collaboration tools.
• Excellent English language skills. German/French or any additional language skills are considered as advantage
• Excellent communication and complex problem-solving skills
• Social interaction & cross-cultural mindset, empathy & relationship management
• High level of self-motivation to drive initiatives and initiating changes
• Willingness to bring in new ideas and initiate changes