• Job Description

  Req#: 124929

  What will you do?

  We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our rapidly growing delivery organization in Poland. As a Scrum Master you will be working in multinational team of highly specialized consultants, interfacing with one of our clients. 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.

  As a “servant-leader” 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.

  You will have a growth mindset which focuses on quality and doing the right thing. This includes feeling comfortable with challenging the status quo, thinking differently, having self-reflection and believing in the ‘Art of the Possible’
  
  You’ll be part of a Project Governance Family with a strong community and evolving best practices, empowered to drive innovation and shape delivery in an organization that blends consulting agility with engineering excellence.
  

  Your Tasks

  • Mentor and coach squad members
  • Work in multi-team environment, collaborating with several Squads from various countries and organizations (both client and GFT)
  • Support the Tribe Mission and the context including strategic targets, delivery targets, structure, agile framework(s), constraints, team-dynamics, mindsets, human nature and technical considerations
  • Foster and model a culture of continuous improvement, collaborative environment and advocate self-organization
  • Collaborate with the Product Owners and Squads to ensure a healthy prioritized product backlog is maintained for your Squads
  • Facilitate squad ceremonies (Standups, Backlog Refinement, QBR Planning, Retrospectives, Reviews, Demos), through a clear understanding of the aim of each ceremony, taking corrective measures as required to ensure they are effective
  • Work 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

  • At least 8-year financial industry experience or large corporate environment
  • Experienced in agile techniques with past success in supporting agile Teams/Squads
  • Experience in working in scaled Agile model, collaborating with multiple Squads spread across geographies
  • Strong understanding of the Scrum Master role
  • 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 Squads delivery
  • Passionate about coaching and supporting people to embrace changes to their way of working
  • A continuous improvement mindset and dedication to finding new, more effective ways of working
  • Attitude which puts the needs of Squads before that of the individual and helping others perform to the best of their abilities (“Servant Leadership”)
  • Emotionally intelligent, calm, open-minded and collaborative with strong people management skills: Motivating, observing, coaching and mentoring of colleagues
  • Very good command of English (frequent communication with English-speaking customers)

  We offer you

  • Employment based on the contract of employment
  • Work in a highly experienced and dedicated team
  • Work with top-tier financial clients on innovative cloud, data and core banking initiatives
  • Contribute to a strong, collaborative project governance community
  • Join an environment where your ideas and autonomy matter – we value doers and shapers
  • Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
  • Training and certification fit for career path

• About the company

  Tailored IT solutions for banks, insurers and industry. Since 1987. GFT – Shaping the future of digital business.

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