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Scrum Master London, England

Demica

Full Time London, England 52000 - 83250 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

As Scrum Master, reporting into the VP of Engineering, you will be fulfilling a critical role in our agile delivery approach. You are a facilitator, communicator, collaborator, nurturer, coach, and servant leader. You will be responsible for sprint delivery of one or more Scrum / Kanban teams working on complex, multi-stakeholder releases.

You will ensure our agile disciplines are maintained whilst taking a pragmatic, practical approach where adjustments to pure agile are necessitated.

As you’ll be closely in touch with what the team is delivering; you will be responsible for some status and delivery risk reporting to give visibility to stakeholders, including Product, VP of Engineering and PMO.

You will be responsible for ensuring our Agile ceremonies are structured and effective; such as sprint planning, estimation, retros, and stand-up’s.

What you'll do

Responsible for the delivery of delivering sprint goals
Run Agile ceremonies (stand ups, retrospective, backlog grooming, among others)
Manage Sprint planning and track progress across development streams
Coordinate and collaborate across cross-functional teams work with (Product, BA, Dev, QA and Infrastructure )
Provide governance and reporting for projects and as needed ,including resource management and issue resolution
Facilitate the prevention and unblocking of issues & delivery, aim to reduce toil/waste
Actively manage JIRA boards, and ensure we adhere to our Definition of Ready, Definition of Done
Please note: this is not an agile coaching role – this role requires active scrum mastering of delivery

Who you are

At least 5 years as Scrum Master or relevant experience.
Expert in working with Scrum, Kanban in technology – you understand why Agile exists, and can flex what works in the given context
Expert working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence
Experience of managing delivery of both business and technology projects
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Knowledge of Project Management and Office tools and artifacts (risk matrix, issues log, MS Projects, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio/Draw.io, etc.)
Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to work independently
Experience scrum mastering more than one team
Experience delivering agile in a globally distributed team

About Demica

We are a market-leading fintech, powering the trade finance programmes of the world’s largest trade banks and corporations.

Demica’s proposition is simple: our intuitive, cloud-based platform enables financial institutions and corporates to automate and scale their working capital solutions.

Today, we have over US$27bn of Assets under Administration (AUA)* on our platform, across the full spectrum of working capital products. Funded by a diverse range of banks and institutional investors, these programmes enable companies to strengthen their supply chains and redeploy capital to drive growth.

Assets under Administration is the total value of the receivables on the Demica platform across receivables and payables programmes as at 31st December 2022.

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