Technical Scrum Master

TN United Kingdom; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative fintech company is seeking a Technical Scrum Master to enhance their software teams. This role is pivotal in delivering high-quality financial software while fostering a collaborative and delivery-focused team culture. You will lead Scrum ceremonies, mentor team members, and utilize Agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement. With a hybrid work model, you’ll engage with a passionate team twice a week in the Cardiff office. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will significantly impact the company's growth and success in the digital lending market.

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)

25 days Annual leave (plus bank holidays)

1 day Charity Leave

EAP

Pension (Salary Sacrifice 3%/5% contribution)

Salary sacrifice bike and electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Experience as a Scrum Master in a software development environment.
• Strong technical background in software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead Scrum ceremonies and facilitate team collaboration.
• Mentor team members on agile practices and career development.

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Scrum

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kanban

LeSS

Job description

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Salary: Up to £60,000 depending on experience + up to 20% annual bonus + benefits

About Us:

Founded in 2018 LDMS are part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 4 pillar organisation that has over 2,000 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world-class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to-do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

Requirements

We are looking for a Technical Scrum Master to join and develop our software teams and play a crucial role in delivering world-class financial software for our partners and clients. In this role you will play a critical part in delivering high quality features and fostering a delivery focused and collaborative team ethos. This is an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is dedicated to driving excellence in software development.

Responsibilities

Delivery

• Lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) to ensure effective collaboration and communication within the team.
• Facilitate the delivery process within your teams, collaborating with Product Owners to identify and plan high-value deliverables, ensuring their successful execution.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and agile practices, embodying the spirit of agile methodologies.
• Use of Kanban and other Agile frameworks (LeSS) to empower cross team collaboration working on a single product.
• Proactively identify and address issues, risks and blockers.
• Communicate timelines and commitments effectively to stakeholders.
• Redistribute tasks among team members to promote growth, balance, and scalability.

People

• Take ownership of the well-being and career development of each team member.
• Mentor and coach team members on agile practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
• The ability to proactively manage conflict ensuring a healthy level to create active collaboration.
• Provide mentoring and coaching focused on culture and delivery excellence.
• Identify training needs for future skill development and planning.
• Conduct regular structured 1-2-1s to set personal objectives and goals.
• Proactively manage performance and motivation within your teams.

Technical

• Solid technical background in software engineering, with familiarity in languages and frameworks such as Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
• Ability to read, understand, and review code when necessary.
• Ensure that software is developed to the agreed-upon standards of quality.
• Although this role is technical it’s not expected to be hands-on.

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech, but we recognise that it’s the people that we hire and bring together who are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing, however, what we do have in common are our values:

• Teamwork
• Merit
• Develop
• Impactful
• Integrity

They may just look like corporate jargon, but they mean something to us, and if you can relate to the above, get in touch as it there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

We work on a hybrid base here, we would like the successful candidate to be in our Cardiff office 2 times a week.

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days Annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Charity Leave
• EAP
• Pension (Salary Sacrifice 3%/5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice bike and electric car scheme