
Senior Scrum Master
- Kraków, małopolskie
- Stała
- Pełny etat
- Facilitate Agile Processes:
- Guide and coach development teams in the effective use of Scrum, Kanban, or other agile frameworks as appropriate for the team’s needs and projects.
- Ensure the organization and facilitation of Scrum events, making sure that these meetings are well-structured and effective in driving team progress
- Improve Teams Collaboration:
- Work closely with project managers, product owners, architects, and developers to ensure alignment on sprint goals and project deliverables
- Coordinate work across multiple teams working on different technology stacks, ensuring that dependencies are managed and risks are mitigated.
- Ensure effective collaboration within the team and with external teams and stakeholders.
- Impediment Removal:
- Identify and help the teams overcome obstacles that could hinder their progress.
- Escalate risks and issues when necessary and drive to resolution in a timely manner.
- Maintain a data-driven focus, ensuring that decisions and improvements are guided by relevant metrics and insights to enhance team effectives and outcomes.
- Track and report on team performance metrics such as velocity, sprint progress, and delivery cadence.
- Ensure that teams utilize the Agile Management Tool (Jira) in a manner that supports smooth delivery and maintains a transparent process, providing clear visibility of the backlog to all stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by encouraging retrospection, suggesting process improvements, and promoting best practices in agile methodologies.
- Encourage teams to experiment, learn from failures, and adopt a growth mindset.
- Stakeholder Management:
- Serve as a point of contact between teams and Core IT leadership, ensuring that leadership and stakeholders are informed of project progress, risks, and blockers.
- Support product owners in backlog prioritization and communication of business goals to the team.
- Agile Training and Mentorship:
- Train and mentor team members and stakeholders on agile practices and the Scrum framework.
- Advocate for agile best practices across StoneX Enterprise IT to support the broader organizational adoption of agile methodologies.
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, supporting multiple agile teams in a fast-paced development environment.
- Strong practical experience with Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar agile project management tools.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to guide teams to self-organize and foster collaboration.
- Experience in tracking and reporting key agile metrics such as velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time, and using these to drive team performance.
- Good understanding of modern software development lifecycles.
- Proven ability to identify impediments and risks, remove roadblocks, and drive issue resolution.
- Experience working with a variety of stakeholders across different functions, including product owners, IT leadership, and technical team members.
- Prior experience in managing cross-team dependencies and aligning multiple teams to a shared goal within a matrixed environment.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent certification (PSM, PMI-ACP).
- Experience working in financial services or a similarly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with modern development technologies and processes including cloud platforms (Azure), CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions), microservices architecture, and containerization concepts (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). While not a technical role, knowledge of this areas is necessary to communicate effectively with development teams and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of Lean methodologies and experience promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Strong human skills, including leadership and servant leadership, the ability to give and receive feedback, facilitation skills, coaching, and conflict resolution expertise.
- Hybrid; our new Cracow office address: St. Mogilska 35.
- Fixed term - 12 month contract