good opportunity Senior Scrum Master

Job Description

*Strategy Financial Markets eTrading has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive multi-year year product roadmap. The FM eTrading technology team is a specialist team of individuals hired to evolve the bank s single dealer and multi dealer platform services in a way that will differentiate Standard Chartered in the markets it participates in. Business Forthcoming roadmaps include adding new asset classes to the platform, implementing regulatory changes, building more sophisticated hedging tools and generally implementing new initiatives to make the eCommerce business more competitive and successful in the marketplace. Overview This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset eTrading trading system development team that is distributed between London, Singapore and Bangalore. The successful candidate is expected to:
• Have an awareness of the overall eCommerce business strategy and carry out day-to-day work in a manner that achieves those overarching goals
• Be a subject matter expert in Agile software delivery with an ability to transition teams from Waterfall ways of working to Agile ways of working
• Run multiple scrums and strive to make process improvements for betterment of the software development and delivery process
• Support of the Programme Manager with regards planning, resource allocation and senior stakeholder reporting
• Provide project management for preparing delivering software into Production environments
Agile Project Management
• Experienced in driving the delivery of complex software delivery projects in an agile environment
• An experienced Scrum Master (preferably certified) who can facilitate the Scrum ceremonies, ensure the teams follows Agile best practice and act as a servant leader for the project team
• An experienced Project Manager (preferably PMP certified) which experience of delivering projects in a Classic, Waterfall environment including planning, resource allocation, financial management and project governance.
• Experienced in setting up and maintaining JIRA and Confluence tools to facilitate effective Agile Project Management.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining Agile Metrics in JIRA to monitor a team s velocity and delivery progress
• Experienced in proving clear and concise status updates
• Experience of raising risks and issues and escalating to management at the earliest opportunity to ensure items are resolved in a timely manner.
Release Management
• Experienced at negotiating, planning and managing all release activities
• Experience of producing deployment Run Plans in conjunction with Development Leads
• Experience of adhering to a delivery assurance framework to ensure delivery risks are appropriately managed
• Experience conducting release readiness reviews and business Go/No-Go reviews
• Experience maintaining release schedules and ensuring alignment across key partners
Business Knowledge
• Experience of working in the technology function of an Investment Bank, Financial Services Company or Technology Company.
• Experience of working in a Front Office Trading technology department is preferred but not essential
• Knowledge of the FX business, core FX products and market participants are preferred but not essential
• Knowledge of electronic trading platforms and low latency trading is advantageous.
Change Knowledge
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles and methodologies
• Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
• Experience of delivering large scale change within a structured programme management environment.
Non-technical Skills
• Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated with a focus on client and customer service
• Very strong interpersonal skills including facilitation and coaching and able to lead and influence others
• Committed to the development of all team members and continuous improvement of the Agile
• Proven ability to work within a team environment.
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Experience facilitating workshops / discussions.
• Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
• Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and time management.
Governance
• As an Agile practitioner, the candidate is expected to help organise the teams for a sprint by doing sprint planning
• During a sprint cycle, the candidate will be expected to run daily scrums and help to remove any impediments that exist for team member
• Strive to improve the process for running scrums/sprints and protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions
• Ensure bank-wide software delivery methodologies are followed and help to collate the required information to pass various quality controls provided under Technical Delivery Assurance (TDA) and any other such like governance
• Help to do release planning and coordinate with all stakeholders involved to provide a controlled handover to production
• Work with the product owner and other stakeholders as necessary to determine sprint scope
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Able to multi-task and working on more than one project at the same time
• Understand the regulatory environment and its impact on the eCommerce business lines
Key Stakeholders
• Provide coordination and project management to ensure successful delivery of projects
• Act as an intermediary between business stakeholders and the development team for the delivery process
• Assist in the requirement gathering with a multitude of stakeholders from different disciplines within the bank and of different levels of seniority
Other Responsibilities
• Have the knowledge and confidence to apply critical thinking to make the necessary decisions to progress the project. And at the same time, understand the limits of their responsibility & expertise and know when to solicit decisions from other members of the project (business or technology)
• Help rollout features to business users post go-live
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Scrum Master
• Managing Stakeholders
• Understanding and following bank governance processes
• Self Starter
Our Ideal Candidate
• Degree level educating in a relevant discipline such as mathematics, engineering, economics, etc
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Keyskills :
low latency tradingkeeping things simpletrading systemchange managementbusiness strategycritical thinkingproject managementelectronic tradingretirement savings