Summary: The Scrum Master for Risk Technology at emagine will play a pivotal role in leading Agile practices within a multi-disciplinary squad focused on transformation projects in the financial services sector. This position requires a dynamic individual who will act as a change agent, ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework while coaching and mentoring teams to optimize processes and deliver high-quality outcomes. The role involves collaboration with Product Owners and stakeholders to define project scopes, manage deliveries, and enhance customer experiences. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in financial services, particularly in risk management, and demonstrate effective leadership in Agile environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape, scope and structure projects to create a platform for successful delivery, including the coordination of sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Work with the Product Owners to define customer journey vision and design, handle product backlogs and new requests, ensuring effective prioritisation.
• Manage and coordinate project deliveries, project resources, remove blockers and coach the scrum team on Agile practices.
• Work supportively and collaboratively with a complex stakeholder network, including business owners, multiple Tribes and Squads to ensure alignment and prioritisation where applicable.
• Coordinate Release Management & Deployment ensuring changes are communicated to users.
• Manage the QA process to ensure all changes are delivered to a high standard of quality.
• Deliver robust governance and risk management in line with bank policies, and maintained through the governance frameworks including 3rd party procurement.
• Monitor performance in terms of volumes and quality against plan and provide advice, guidance and recommend corrective action where necessary, to enhance performance and ensure consistency of approach.
• Ensure all activities is aligned to the strategy and core values thereby ensuring fair treatment of all customers.

Key Skills:

• Experience of working within financial services institution (Ideally Risk domain).
• Experience working in a scrum team and successfully delivering business projects in accordance with objectives.
• Understanding and application of project delivery including planning and tracking, risk and issue management, stakeholder management and organisational implementation in an Agile environment.
• Excellent knowledge of the scrum framework including tools and techniques.
• Effectiveness in leading, coaching and sharing best practice with colleagues.
• Ability to manage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Certified Scrum Master or working towards qualifying.
• Experience utilising project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro.
• Strong knowledge of the financial services technology landscape.
• Ability to collect and analyse information to solve complex problems rationally and make decisions on time for enhanced productivity.

Salary (Rate): £700

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT