Job Description

Role Responsibilities

The Scrum Master's (SM) key objective is to ensure that Scrum is understood and enacted, and to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.

The Scrum Master typically serves a single Scrum Team and the organization as a servant leader, facilitator, teacher, coach, mentor, manager, impediment remover and change agent.

• Facilitates Agile ceremonies, including Daily Team Standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning.
• Removes obstacles or impediments to the teams progress, escalates to Product Owner and Lead Scrum Master as required.
• Coaches and mentors team members in adopting Agile practices and a truly Agile mindset including ownership, self-organisation and continuous improvement.
• Creates a collaborative environment by coaching the team to employ Agile best practices, ensures all tools and methods in place for teams success.
• Guides the team in process improvement, helps them to identify its strengths and weaknesses and achieve optimum productivity.
• Supports team by liaising with 3rd parties, inspecting daily progress towards Sprint Goal and maintaining Agile Metrics and tools.
• Supports Product Owner in Backlog Refinement, e.g. by proposing techniques for effective Backlog management.
• Contributes in Product Inception Workshop to define product and Scrum of Scrums (where applicable) to resolve blockers, propose improvements and discuss lessons learnt.

Key Stakeholders

• Liquidity [Agile Scrum Team] Product Owner, Delivery Team (Engineers, QA Managers, etc).
• Liquidity Accountable Executive, Programme Manager, Delivery and Transformations Lead, Product SME, Agile Coach.
• Liquidity - applicable internal technology stakeholders.
• Liquidity - applicable internal business stakeholders and support functions (e.g. regional and country stakeholders, Audit, Legal and Compliance, etc).
• Applicable external 3rd party stakeholders (e.g. vendor partners, technology stakeholders, etc).

Our Ideal Candidate

• The Scrum Master is a collaborative and empowering servant leader with exceptional facilitation, issue-solving and communication skills, organisational proficiency, people and conduct management capabilities.
• Successful SCB Scrum Masters typically benefit from substantial experience in Scrum Master, operational (e.g. programme / project) management or delivery roles within the financial or tech industries and strong knowledge of the Agile Scrum framework. Knowledge of and / or experience with other Agile frameworks (e.g. Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming, LeSS, SAFe) highly desirable.
• Scrum Master certification desirable, such as CSM (Certified Scrum Master). Additional agile certifications will be regarded as a bonus, e.g. CSP (Certified Scrum Professional), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner), PMI - ACP (PMI Agile Certified Practitioner), etc.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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