Our client is in the financial services industry.
Responsibilities:
- Lead daily standups sprint planning sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Support teams in backlog grooming ensuring tasks are welldefined and estimated
- Remove blockers and escalate challenges to maintain progress
- Promote agile best practices and drive a continuous improvement mindset
- Ensure the delivery team commits to their definition of done
- Maintain visual representation of sprint progress including burnup charts and task boards
- Work closely with developers QA engineers and product teams to facilitate smooth sprint
- Foster a collaborative hightrust team environment
- Encourage teams to take ownership of their work while providing guidance when needed
- Assist in tracking sprint progress using Agile tools such as JIRA or Trello
- Foster an open honest and transparent relationship with key stakeholders
- Act as the voice of reason and authority within the team providing clarity and assertiveness when required
- Monitor sprint health and identify areas for process improvement
- Gather and analyze sprint metrics to provide insights for decisionmaking
- Support the creation of agile dashboards and reports to track team performance
- Adapt and evolve agile processes to meet business and team needs
- Ensure the Master Story List (MSL) is maintained and stories are ready for sprint
- Any other reasonable tasks related to agile team facilitation and delivery
Requirements
- 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in a software development environment
- Strong understanding of Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
- Experience with JIRA Confluence or other Agile project management tools
- Ability to resolve conflicts foster collaboration and drive team alignment
- Strong facilitation skills to navigate discussions and ensure team engagement
- Excellent communication and problemsolving skills
- High ownership and accountability you take responsibility for driving outcomes
- Experience in product development with an ability to support software engineering teams technically when required
- Previous experience leading small teams while remaining handson
- Demonstrated ability to manage technical debt and ensure continuous delivery
NicetoHave Skills:
- Experience in banking fintech or cloudbased digital environments (AWS knowledge is a plus)
- Background in software development product management or engineering
- Scrum Master certification (CSM PSM SAFe or equivalent)
- Exposure to CI/CD DevOps and Agile transformations
- Experience with mobile (iOS/Android) web (HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript frameworks) .NET Java or quality assurance automation
- Familiarity with web security best practices and OWASP principles
3+ years of front-end development experience in a JavaScript-heavy environment Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+, HTML, CSS, with experience building responsive and accessible web applications Hands-on experience with React.js (Next.js preferred) and its ecosystem (Hooks, Context API, Redux, Redux-Thunk, State Management libraries) Experience integrating with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or WebSockets Hands-on experience with Git for version control Experience with unit testing & automated testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or similar) Proficiency in micro-frontend architecture Familiarity with browser testing and debugging tools (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) AWS cloud experience (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, ECS, or other AWS services) Experience with Docker and containerized front-end deployments Strong debugging skills and experience working with browser developer tools Ability to collaborate in an agile, fast-paced development environment Nice to have: 5+ years of front-end development experience Experience with TypeScript Familiarity with CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, TailwindCSS, Ant Design) Awareness of UI/UX best practices to ensure optimal user experience Experience with Vue.js or Angular is a plus Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and ability to set up projects accordingly Exposure to Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI) to assist in front-end/back-end collaboration Experience working in the banking and financial domain is a plus