Agile Practitioner

Role Description

We are looking for a collaborative and smart Agile Practitioner / Scrum Master to join our team.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in setting up and working with teams ensuring that there is a safe psychological environment in place so that teams are able to deliver critical functionalities to our end stakeholders.

Your key responsibilities

• The Scrum Master operates at Squad level and is a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them maximize the value created by the Squad.
• They will do this by helping the team understand Agile theory, practices and values and translating this into practice by running the standard Agile ceremonies.
• The Scrum master develops and leads multi-discipline team(s), helping them to deliver value by facilitating progress and coaching them into a self-organized team.
• The Scrum Master will also coordinate with the different squads and release management to ensure successful delivery of features in production.

Your skills and experience

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Knowledge and experience in Agile principles and frameworks: e.g. Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban.
• Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques:
• User Stories,
• Acceptance Test Driven Development,
• Behavior Driven Development,
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Peer Programming,
• Automated Testing
• Experience with distributed, multi-locations teams.
• Familiar with tools for Agile team management: e.g. JIRA & Confluence.
• Goods skills of group facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency.
• Scrum Master certified and experienced is a definite plus but not mandatory.
• Understand and promote Agile values: FROCC (Focus, Respect, Openness, Commitment, Courage)
• A great team player who is comfortable resolving impediments along with stakeholders.
• Able to inspire and motivate people and multi-disciplinary, self-organized teams
• Experience or technical knowledge in financial domain is a plus.