12 months Contract - Technical Scrum Master & DevOps Practitioner (Through an External Agency Payroll Provider)

Julius Baer; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Julius Baer is seeking an experienced Technical Scrum Master & DevOps Practitioner to lead Agile practices in the GPS domain and strengthen CI/CD, automation, and release processes. You will coach cross-functional teams, drive SAFe adoption, and partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure transparency and delivery.

The role requires 10+ years in Scrum Master roles, SAFe certification, and hands-on DevOps with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or equivalent role.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including technical and non-technical teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Certification in SAFe, such as SAFe Agilist (SA) or SAFe Practitioner (SP).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of the technology stack for GPS ART environments.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile & SAFe Execution for GPS domain, including sprint and PI planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and backlog refinement.
• Enable high-performing teams through empowerment, prioritisation, and continuous improvement.
• Remove impediments and drive delivery by resolving blockers and escalating when needed.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, development teams, Test Management, and stakeholders to align on ART initiatives.
• Promote agile maturity and standardisation across the GPS domain.
• Drive automation by proposing and developing scripts.
• Manage configuration, packaging and deployments of application components.
• Onboard applications to common platforms (e.g., Observability Testing Framework, CI/CD platform).
• Contribute to software solutions strategy in a highly collaborative team.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile coaching

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

DevOps

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Octopus

Maven

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let's shape the future of wealth management together.

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities the candidates bring, enabling them to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth.

We are seeking an experienced Technical Scrum Master & DevOps Practitioner to join our Agile team in the GPS domain. In this dual-role capacity, you will be responsible for facilitating and coaching cross‑functional teams in adopting and implementing SAFe principles, while also driving robust DevOps practices to enable continuous integration, automated testing, and reliable release pipelines.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile & SAFe Execution: Coach Scrum teams in the GPS domain to effectively adopt SAFe principles and Agile practices, including Sprint and PI planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Enable High-Performing Teams: Empower teams to self-organise, prioritise work, and continuously improve through Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence), process optimisation, automation, and waste reduction.
• Remove Impediments & Drive Delivery: Proactively identify and resolve blockers impacting team velocity, escalating critical issues to leadership when needed.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Alignment: Partner with Product Owners, development teams, Test Management, and wider stakeholders to align on ART initiatives, track progress, and ensure transparency.
• Scale Agility Across Organisations: Collaborate with fellow Scrum Masters, POs, and leaders to promote agile maturity, consistency, and a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Drive our automation effort by proposing and developing scripts.
• Manage configuration, packaging and deployments of application components based on software and documentation delivered by developers.
• Drive the onboarding of our application to common platforms (e.g. Observability Testing Framework, CI/CD platform).
• Be a driver for standardization and automation within the GPS domain and foster the engineering culture within your team.
• As part of a highly collaborative team, contribute to the future Software Solutions strategy.

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

YOUR PROFILE

Professional and Technical

• 10+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or equivalent role
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including technical and non-technical teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field
• Certification in SAFe, such as SAFe Agilist (SA) or SAFe Practitioner (SP)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Understanding of the technology stack required to maintain a successful and well-working environment, including:
  • Familiarity with relevant technologies and systems used in the GPS ART
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Experiences of successfully delivering Software projects
• Linux administration background: software packages, text processing, filesystem management, maintaining environments, logfile investigations
• Scripting skills: Unix/Linux commands, bash, Python
• Hands-on CI/CD experience with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Octopus, Maven, or similar
• Cloud experience: Kubernetes, Azure Application Platform (e.g. AKS), distributed architectures
• Broad understanding of the Trading flow, with a good understanding of products provided by the GPS ART, including knowledge of market data, trading platforms, and risk management systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with using Web APIs (REST, GraphQL, Websocket)
• Experience with configuration of middleware such as Kafka and Websphere MQ
• User-level knowledge of observability tools (Grafana, ElasticSearch, OpenTelemetry)
• Development background (ideally Java)
• Knowledge of cloud-based technologies, such as Azure

Personal and Social

• Excellent command of verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work autonomously in a global team setup to take on initiative with a positive attitude
• Solution orientated and able to work in an agile setup
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality results under tight deadlines
• Highly motivated team player