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Interface with business owners, product owners and other stakeholders to prioritise, manage risks and dependencies, coordinate releases, and align stakeholders for the development teams.Key Responsibilities:\nAgile Development Team Facilitation\nLead Scrum ceremonies, remove obstacles, and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution to enable the most effective work delivery by development teams on small projects.\nAgile Release Planning\nPlan and replan software releases for medium-sized projects as they are produced to ensure timely updates and to deliver the planned benefits as early as possible in the project or program.\nAgile Backlog Management\nReview the backlog of work for a small project and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.\nCulture of Innovation\nPromote a culture of innovation by creating solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.\nDigital Strategy/Transformational Projects Execution\nExecute and deliver elements of the digital road map, leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation.\nProject Risk and Issue Management\nIdentify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.\nData Collection and Analysis\nCollate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats. Involves working independently.\nWork Scheduling and Allocation\nAssign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.\nProject Resource Management\nCarry out delegated activities to support the deployment and effective utilization of project resources.\nProject Planning\nCarry out delegated activities to support the production of workstream and project plans that identify and organize all the activities needed to deliver project objectives and that comply with the organization's project management framework.\nPerformance Management\nRespond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality, and contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.\nMinimum Requirements:\n5 + years’ experience as a Scrum Master in a Financial Services business\nKnowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.\nProfessional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.\nUnderstand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.\nAbility to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily standups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.\nStakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.\nJIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). 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