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Scrum Master Leeds, England

Financial Conduct Authority

Full Time Leeds, England 75000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Job title:

Scrum Master

The team/department

A new product team is being setup at the FCA in Leeds which will deliver products and product enhancements to our FCA colleagues using the new OmniStudio low code and integration platform of Salesforce. This is part of a major commitment to ensure that the regulator of financial services is equipped with suitable tooling for its vital role. Our users are excited at the prospect of rapid and high-quality delivery and populating this team with suitable capability and expertise is a priority.

What you will be doing (the role)

Leading Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, and retrospectives, Optimising backlog and throughput
Resolving risks, issues, interdependencies and managing external relationships on behalf of the delivery teams
Creating a harmonious environment, managing conflict quickly and appropriately, creating a trusting and co-operative environment
Review business, technical and operational requirements and related information to ensure quality inputs to enable effective designs and builds can be tested and implemented
Estimate and co-ordinate releases with product release management, project managers and business stakeholders aligning to project timescales, release calendars and stakeholder needs
Continually improve agile and scrum methodology and its implementation to provide high quality and highly efficient delivery

The skills and experience you will have

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate’s CV. For example, ‘Experience of employment law’ is measurable for looking at someone’s CV but ‘Knowledge of HR practices’ is not.

Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme.

Minimum

Substantial experience as an IT Delivery Manager or IT Project Manager, with 3rd party, on and off-shore developers / project resources
Experience working with multiple digital products with regular releases and pressure to deliver new functionality
Certified Scrum Master or willingness to work towards

Essential

Excellent communication and organisational skills
Experience of planning complex agile developments in a form that can be reliably communicated to the wider business, allowing the business to schedule activity with a degree of confidence
Understanding of metrics of incremental delivery
Experience and understanding of agile development and continuous improvement

Desirable

Experience of implementing Agile methodologies business-wide
Experience as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment

What you will get from the role

Opportunity to guide/lead the operation of a Delivery Squad - working with Product/ Architect/ Design/ Developer colleagues to ensure that delivery is assured and effective.
The team will have significant autonomy to adopt and adapt Agile and Lean practices, the role of Scrum Master will guide determining what works and how improvements can be made.
Opportunity to make a difference - keeping the team effective and delivering for a regulator of one of the UK's most important industries.
Opportunity to determine the delivery approach within a team operating within both Regulation and Financial Services, gaining an insight into both of these domains.
The salary range in Edinburgh & Leeds is up to £75,000 per annum plus a competitive benefits package, including a non-contributory pension

Our competitive Flexible Benefits Scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash. Additional information on the core benefits you will receive can be found

here

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found

here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working from home, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Multilocation & hybrid working

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, and London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from. The FCA also supports hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

Useful information

Applications for this role close on at midnight on 27th February 2023
Got a question? If you are interested learning more about the role, please contact Lucy Shave at
[email protected]
The interview process for this opportunity will involve a competency-based interview and technical case study. For additional guidance and support on the FCA’s interview process, please visit our careers site
here.

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