Scrum Master

Luxoft; Polska; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 583,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop & Monitor provided

Equipment for remote work

Job summary

Luxoft seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead agile teams on a Murex-based derivatives platform deployment. You will coach multi-location teams, orchestrate agile ceremonies, remove technical impediments, and partner with Release Management to ensure smooth releases and compliance with cloud standards.

You will guide teams through data integration challenges, risk and stakeholder communication, and continuous delivery improvements, fostering a culture of excellence in a regulated financial

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as Scrum Master or similar, coordinating complex software releases.
• Proven success in supporting agile teams, including technically oriented ones.
• Strong guidance, leadership, and coaching skills at team level.
• Structured, problem-solving mindset for removing impediments to delivery.
• Passion for coaching teams through changes in technology and delivery processes.
• Continuous improvement mindset focusing on development and deployment cycles.
• Excellent people management: communication, motivation, observation, coaching and mentoring.
• Experience with agile tools (JIRA, Confluence) to support release planning and tracking.
• Experience with distributed, multi-location teams coordinating technical activities.
• Experience in financial reporting/banking environments with regulatory compliance awareness.
• Solid SDLC background with emphasis on banking, DevOps, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex releases: planning, risk management, stakeholders, dependencies

Responsibilities

• Ensure goals are understood by everyone on the team.
• Collaborate with PM and team to maintain a prioritized product backlog with focus on data integration milestones.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
• Address technical impediments and integration challenges proactively.
• Support continuous improvement for value delivery, quality, stability and compliance with Google Cloud standards.
• Understand technical and functional contexts, architecture, and delivery implications.
• Remove impediments and shield the team during releases and deployments.
• Foster an agile culture and optimize CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Coordinate with Release Management on planning, dependencies, monitoring, and post-deployment.
• Produce sprint end metrics to ensure delivery quality.
• Manage technical risks with stakeholders and mitigation planning.

Skills

Scrum Master experience

Agile methodologies

Coaching and leadership

Problem solving and impediment removal

Release planning and CI/CD

Stakeholder communication

JIRA knowledge

Confluence knowledge

Distributed multi-location teams

Banking/financial domain

SDLC understanding

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

MS Office

Job description

The project aims to implement Murex as the strategic derivatives trading platform

The implementation includes:

• Murex platform deployment and configuration
• Commodity derivative product setup
• Trade execution integration with Broadridge
• Data migration and reconciliation
• Front Office and Risk

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that goals are understood by everyone in the Team
• Collaborate closely with the Project Manager and the team to ensure a healthy, prioritized product backlog is maintained, with particular attention to technical milestones and requirements for data integration.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), ensuring they are effective and proactively addressing technical impediments and integration challenges.
• Support the Team in continuously improving the effectiveness of their incremental delivery of value to clients & stakeholders, focusing on quality, stability, and compliance with Google Cloud platform technical standards.
• Deeply understand the technical and functional context of the supported teams, including high level functional requirements, system architecture, applied agile frameworks, environmental constraints , and the technical implications of deliveries.
• Proactively remove impediments to team success, establishing an environment where the team can be effective, and protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions, especially during release and deployment cycles.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that the team lives the agile values, apply agile principles, and follow agreed processes and practices, with an emphasis on optimizing CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
• Ensure efficient collaboration with Release Management team, from initial planning and managing technical dependencies between teams to monitoring implementation and post-deployment.
• Produce metrics as the end of each Sprint to ensure the quality of the delivery.
• Manage technical risks associated with deliveries, ensuring clear communication with stakeholders and facilitating their mitigation.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 5 years+ of experience as Scrum Master or in a similar position, with a proven track record in coordinating complex software releases.
• In-depth experience in agile techniques and demonstrated success in supporting agile teams, including those with a strong technical orientation.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering guidance and leadership, both individually and at the agile team level.
• Structured and problem-solving attitude, including identification and proactive removal of technical impediments to agile team delivery.
• Passionate about coaching and supporting people to embrace changes in their way of working, especially concerning new technologies and delivery processes.
• A continuous improvement mindset and dedication to finding new ways of working, with a focus on optimizing development and deployment cycles.
• Emotionally intelligent, calm, open-minded, and collaborative with strong people management skills: strong communication, motivating, observing, coaching, and mentoring of colleagues.
• Experience with tools for agile team management such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Office Package, with an understanding of how these can support release planning and tracking.
• Experience with distributed, multi-location teams, with an effective approach to coordinating technical activities and deliveries.
• Experience in financial reporting / banking environments, understanding the regulatory and compliance rigor applicable to software deliveries.
• Solid technical background and experience in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with a strong preference for experience in banking, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation of deployment processes.
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating complex releases for software products, including planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, and managing dependencies between technical teams.

What do we offer our employees

Equipment, such as a laptop and monitor