The first-ever digital securities exchange regulated by the FCA in London is hiring for Scrum Master

What you will do: 

• Manage each project’s scope, timeline, and workflows.

• Coordinate grooming sessions, prioritization, sprints, retrospective/review meetings, and daily stand-ups.

• Coach all team members in Agile frameworks, encouraging the teams to meet sprint commitments and writing complete user stories.

• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.

• Act as the point of contact for external communications from clients where required.

• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.

• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.

• Helping development teams implement changes effectively.

• Ensure deliverables are measured and reported accurately to quantifiable standards at the end of each sprint.

• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity and understanding.

• Help build a productive environment where team members take ownership of the product and have a passion for their work.

Qualifications

The Scrum Master should have expert level knowledge of the Scrum processes and practices to assist the team in reaching their Agile peak and their experience should include the following:

• The ideal candidate will have a degree relevant to Information Technology/Computer Science, Engineering (or equivalent) and at least 5 years of relevant work experience.

• Strong experience as a Scrum Master overseeing multiple development teams on projects that often overlap and have significant dependencies.

• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts.

• Recognized industry-standard certification as a Scrum Master (CSM) / Professional Scrum Master (PSM).

• Extensive understanding of software development, testing processes, and analysis techniques and practices.

• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks, including advanced scaling Scrum techniques (LeSS/SoS/SAFe);

• In-depth knowledge of task management and document management systems (JIRA/RedMine/Trello/Confluence) and associated tools.

• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills.

• Outstanding problem solving and conflict resolution ability – can easily resolve issues with project team members (stakeholder/product owners) and mitigate impacts.

• Outstanding organizational skills.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

• Excellent English language skills (both spoken and written).

• It would be nice to have additional technical understanding in the following areas:

• Previously having worked in the financial market area of software development, analysing and defining large ERP/financial systems.

• Has experience with real-time trading systems and market data.

• Has experience with regulated financial companies.

• Has experience with multinational global teams.