We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master Expert to lead a squad within a complex international banking environment.
This is not a role limited to facilitating Agile ceremonies. You will take an active role in delivery leadership, cross-functional dependency management, continuous improvement and stakeholder coordination within an ecosystem of 200+ squads and a highly interdependent architecture.
What you will do
Agile Excellence & DevOps
- Ensure effective application of Agile and DevOps practices within the squad
- Facilitate key ceremonies including Daily, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective
- Build a culture of trust, transparency and continuous feedback
- Coach team members individually and collectively
- Drive continuous improvement and challenge the team to raise its level of performance
Delivery & Dependency Management
- Take end-to-end responsibility for feature delivery, including features requiring contributions from multiple squads and tribes
- Navigate a complex organisational environment to identify and remove bottlenecks
- Understand technical issues and architecture diagrams sufficiently to engage the right technical stakeholders
- Ensure rigorous follow-up from development through to production
Leadership
- Go beyond simply executing the Scrum Master role: challenge the squad to continuously improve
- Proactively identify and communicate risks and issues to management
- Combine squad empowerment with a strong, hands-on leadership approach
- Act as a catalyst for collaboration across teams and organisational boundaries
International & Distributed Teams
- Lead and support an international, multicultural squad
- Work effectively with both onshore and offshore team members, particularly colleagues based in India
- Ensure remote and relocated team members remain fully integrated into the squad and its ways of working
What we're looking for
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a large and complex organisation, ideally within banking, insurance, telecom or another large-scale enterprise environment
- Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps principles
- Genuine technical/IT affinity and the ability to understand architecture, technical dependencies and IT-related issues
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Natural leadership, initiative and confidence to challenge the status quo
- Ability to operate effectively within large-scale governance, processes and multi-team delivery structures
- Proven experience managing multicultural and partially offshored teams
- Fluent English is imperative
- French and/or Dutch are highly appreciated
This role is particularly suited to someone who:
- Has experience coordinating delivery across multiple squads and teams
- Is comfortable operating in a complex organisational and technical landscape
- Takes ownership rather than waiting for problems to be escalated
- Has the confidence to challenge both the squad and management constructively
- Combines Agile expertise with strong delivery and leadership capabilities
If you are an experienced Scrum Master who thrives in complex, large-scale environments and enjoys turning cross-team challenges into successful delivery, we would be interested in hearing from you.