Scrum Master

Job Description

About us:Synechron is a self-funded, leading digital transformation Consulting firm focused on the financial services industry working to accelerate digital initiatives for Banks, Asset Managers and Insurance. We achieve this by providing our clients with innovativesolutions that solve their most complex business challenges and combining Synechron’s unique, end-to-end Digital, Business Consulting, and Technology services. Headquartered in New York, we boast 17 offices globally, with over 14,000 team members.An excellent opportunity for you to join our ICG Global Market Data Hub group as a Scrum Master, to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and energetic team that develops and maintain critical solutions for Cross Asset(s) and Markets GroupWe are seeking an experienced Scrum master to grow and coach our multi agile teams; building on our Big Data application for business, an intuitive, low-code, and forward-thinking solution that forms part of the critical business operations and providesefficiency to the global user base. This application is crucial to the business as it supports core business functions such as providing Real-time, Near Real-time, and End-of-day market data and Price risk, and Quant Functions front to back to our businessteams.Define strategy around progressive delivery frameworks and continuous improvement to help optimize the outcomes driven by technology. You will be providing support and guidance on Agile and DevOps ways of working at a team level. The role will focus on coachingteam leads and members to implement business agility concepts and embed continuous improvement into their working practices.The role will help raise the capability of teams working in agile and embed a culture of continuous improvement.Job Requirement:

• Seeking a highly organized and effective Scrum Master and project manager to build an agile delivery culture and lead day-to-day activities.
• Minimum of three (3) years experience as a Scrum Master within a SAFe or agile environment and a current SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) certification or equivalent.
• Demonstrated evidence of ability to champion adherence to a consistent application of agile practices.
• Proven experience identifying an Agile team’s gaps in agile and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on agile values and principles.
• Proven experience writing Epics, Features and User Stories with acceptance criteria and breaking down into smaller tasks as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, inspire and motivate people to change their mindset and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like Executive sponsors, program/project managers, and line managers) to become servant leaders andto empower people to adopt agile.
• Proven experience creating velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down) using Agile project management software.
• Working also as a Project Manager to manage risk, cost, and change management to cover our internal PTS process

We are looking for Scrum Masters who are:

• Driven by bringing change and unlocking value for our customers
• Self-starters, highly motivated and excellent team players (with a team-first mindset)
• Great communicators, negotiators, facilitators and motivators
• Adept at solving problems and conflicts
• Pragmatists, able to balance innovation with quality and timely delivery
• Passionate about learning and experimenting with new technology, techniques and thinking
• We are looking for someone who is an Agile enthusiast, highly proficient in Agile methodology and with a proven history of contributing to Digital Transformation in an Agile Environment.

Remote Working / Office Presence:This hire would need to be in the office when required, this will be at River House, near the City center. The hire will need to be prepared at stages to come into the office 3 days per week requested by the client.Benefits:Pension plan, Life Insurance, Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay, Health Insurance (Bupa), 25 days Annual Leave + Public Holidays. Summer and Christmas Parties, Cultural Celebration Parties, Annual Company off-site, and post-work socials.Diversity StatementSynechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all.We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and developmentprogrammes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristicprotected by law.