• Job Description

  Req#: JR0009228

  Cyber Security Scrum Master

  Salary: National ranging from £47,000 - £72,000 and London from £50,000 - £80,000 per annum

  Are you interested in joining the Cyber Security team at the FCA?

  The Cyber Security team sits within the Infrastructure & Operations unit and takes end-to-end accountability for the technology roadmap and architecture, development and operational support of Enterprise Security across the internal FCA Technology division.
  The Scrum Master is part of the Cyber Security Engineering team and is responsible for the quality and optimization of software development and technical delivery. Ensuring that the planned releases are appropriately tested, delivered to the release timeline whilst meeting the quality expectations and protecting the integrity of the Live environments.

  What you will be doing

  • 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

  Key aspects of the work will include:

  • Initiate and coordinate Engineering ceremonies and backlog refinement of user stories

  • Lead key sprint planning ceremonies and sprint reporting

  • Supporting operations out of hours as part of an on-call rota

  What you will get from the role

  • We work in small cross functional, self-organising and autonomous teams, passionate about delivering value and having fun

  • We enjoy having a sense of purpose in our job, knowing that we’re serving those in need

  • We don’t do micro-managing; we hire people because we believe they are brilliant in getting the job done

  • We love diversity

  • We admire and look out for servant leaders who have exceptional critical soft skills

  Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. 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.

  Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

  • 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

  • Private healthcare with Bupa

  • A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

  • Income protection

  We support 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.

  The FCA has been recognised by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT as an organisation who have demonstrated their commitment to staff development and upholding the highest standards in our practice within the IT industry. As a Platinum partner we have demonstrated the highest level of dedication to delivering talented, ethical and dedicated professionals for the benefit of industry and society. Some of the many ways we support our staff is through access to learning platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Trailhead, LinkedIn Learning and CITF. You will have access to a wealth of resources through Gartner for Technical Professionals including direct access to Specialist Technical Analysts, webinars and research papers. Membership of BCS is available to support your ongoing professional development and recognition of your level of expertise such as Chartered IT Professional, AMBCS for Associates, MBCS for Professional members, and FBCS for the BCS renowned Fellowship. Communities of Practice have also been implemented to share knowledge with peers and support your professional development

  Skills/Experience required:

  Minimum:

  We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme. This means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

  • Substantial experience as an IT Delivery Manager or IT Project Manager, with 3rd party, on and off shore developers / project resources

  • Experience working with security products with regular releases and pressure to deliver new functionality

  • Certified Scrum Master or willingness to work towards

  Essential:

  • Willingness to undergo SC Clearance

  • 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

  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 cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

  We particularly welcome applications from women, disabled, and minority ethnic candidates, as under-represented groups.

  Flexible working

  We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, 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, or 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.

  Useful information

  Applications for this role close on at midnight on Monday 18th September 2023.

  This role is graded as Senior Associate

  Got a question?

  If you are interested learning more about the role, please contact the following:

  For internal applicants, please contact Lucy Shave on Lucy.Shave@fca.org.uk

  For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam on Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk

  What to expect from our assessment and selection process

  The assessment process consists of a competency and technical based interview.

• About the company

  The Financial Conduct Authority is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.

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