Scrum Master – Credit Risk Technology

Job Description:

Job Title Scrum Master – Credit Risk Technology

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

As a Scrum Master you will operate as a change agent with a passion for working with people and squads to help them deliver their best work. You will facilitate the key ceremonies, support the squads, and ensure the delivery roadmap and product backlog are well maintained, understood and actively used by the squads.

You will influence, coach, and enable the squads. Your responsibilities will include proactively removing impediments to squads’ success, establishing an environment where the squads can be effective, and protecting the squads from outside interruptions and distractions.

As a member of the continuous improvement chapter, you will champion and drive doing the right thing, ensuring that the squads live the agile values, apply agile principles, and follow agreed processes and practices. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to driving improvements through the chapter initiatives.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Mentoring and coaching squad members
• Supporting the tribe mission and the context including strategic targets, delivery targets, structure, agile framework(s), constraints, team-dynamics, mindsets, human nature and technical considerations
• Fostering and modelling a culture of continuous improvement, collaborative environment and advocating self-organisation
• Collaborating with the product owners and squads to ensure a healthy prioritised product backlog is maintained for your squads
• Facilitating squad ceremonies through a clear understanding of the aim of each ceremony, taking corrective measures as required to ensure they are effective
• Working with the tribe scrum master to help the squads continuously improve the effectiveness of their incremental delivery of value to clients & stakeholders by monitoring metrics including velocity, objectives & key results (OKRs) and tribe health while at the same time identifying inefficiencies in operation and removing impediments to the tribe's progress

Your skills and experience

• Financial industry experience or large corporate environment and a strong understanding of the Scrum Master role
• Experienced in agile techniques with past success in supporting agile teams/squads
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering guidance and leadership, both individually and at squad levels
• Structured and inclusive problem-solving including identification and removal of impediments to squad delivery
• Passionate about coaching and supporting people to embrace changes to their way of working and a continuous improvement mindset and dedication to finding new, more effective ways of working
• Emotionally intelligent, calm, open-minded and collaborative with strong people management skills: motivating, observing, coaching and mentoring of colleagues

How we’ll support you

• e.g. Training and development to help you excel in your career
• e.g. A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• e.g. A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• e.g. We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.