Scrum Master (Banking project)

Luxoft; Polska; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 505,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead agile delivery for a banking-focused program on a Murex platform integration. You will coach teams, run ceremonies, and align stakeholders across multi-location DevOps efforts.

You will partner with the Project Manager to maintain a healthy backlog, manage dependencies, and drive continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines and release management, while ensuring quality and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 5 years+ of experience as Scrum Master or in a similar position.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Ensure 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.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

Release planning

CI/CD

Team coaching

Stakeholder communication

Distributed teams

Banking / financial domain

Risk management

JIRA

Confluence

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

MS Office

Job description

DXC Luxoft is a global IT services and consulting company, part of DXC Technology, delivering cutting-edge digital and software solutions worldwide. We partner with leading financial institutions and global enterprises, helping them transform and scale through modern technology.

Join a global community of engineers and be part of building impactful, modern technology solutions!

Project 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.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description

• Familiarity with modern trading software implementation (Murex, Calypso, Orchestrade, Summit)