Scrum Master

CONTEXT

Our client, a major player in its sector, is accelerating its agile transformation within a demanding investment banking context where regulatory pressure, tight deadlines, and complex dependencies are part of daily life. The team is not starting from zero, but it needs a seasoned Scrum Master who can move beyond ceremony facilitation and help the group mature into a truly self-managing unit. The mission sits at the intersection of delivery, coaching, and organizational change: the team must ship valuable features while the company learns to scale agility without losing control or accountability. The Scrum Master will therefore be a steady hand, a mirror for the team, and a trusted partner to product, engineering, and business stakeholders.

ACTIVITIES

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Coach the team and its stakeholders on Scrum values, roles, events, and artifacts, adapting the framework to real constraints.
• Remove impediments, escalate systemic blockers, and protect the team's focus so that commitments are realistic and met.
• Track progress using agile metrics and radiators, helping the team inspect and adapt based on evidence rather than opinion.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations across a complex investment banking environment.
• Act as an ambassador for agile methods, sharing practices, running workshops, and supporting other teams on their journey.
• Potentially take on a feature delivery owner role, coordinating end-to-end delivery of a business feature from discovery to production.

EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

• Establish a predictable, transparent delivery rhythm that improves flow, reduces waste, and increases team morale.
• Raise the team's agile maturity so that Scrum becomes a genuine operating system rather than a set of meetings.
• Improve collaboration between business, technology, and control functions, reducing handoff delays and misunderstandings.
• Deliver high-value features with better quality, fewer surprises, and stronger risk management.
• Leave a lasting internal capability: empowered Scrum Masters, informed product owners, and a culture of continuous improvement.

ENVIRONMENT

• Investment banking domain with strong regulatory, audit, and compliance constraints.
• Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid agile practices; scaled agile concepts may be relevant.
• Tooling such as Jira, Confluence, MIRO, and agile reporting dashboards.
• Close collaboration with product owners, developers, QA, business analysts, risk officers, and senior stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement, coaching, facilitation, and servant leadership as core methods.