Junior Associate Director, IT, Scrum Master

We are seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join our Agile Practices IT team and help shape the future of agile delivery across the organization. In this role you will drive agile delivery foster collaboration and coach teams to achieve excellence in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Partnering closely with Product Owners engineering teams and stakeholders you will drive transparency predictability and continuous improvement ensuring value delivery at scale. 

Key Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Senior Associate Director IT Agile Practices Lead you will: 

 
Delivery & Planning: 

• Support Product Owners in maintaining transparent and up-to-date objectives backlogs and release plans. 

• Facilitate and time-box Scrum events (Daily Stand-ups Sprint Planning Reviews and Retrospectives) to keep teams focused engaged and aligned with sprint goals. 

• Coordinate releases and deployments across multiple teams ensuring dependencies are managed and resources allocated. 

Coaching & Leadership: 

• Coach teams on self-management cross-functionality and agile best practices. 

• Foster a high-trust environment where teams feel safe to innovate and validate assumptions. 

• Organize and lead workshops on Agile/Scrum concepts to promote learning and adoption. 

Process Improvement & Metrics: 

• Capture and analyse agile metrics to provide data-driven insights for continuous improvement. 

• Contribute to Agile Chapter initiatives by sharing ideas preparing curriculum and supporting organizational agile awareness. 

Collaboration & Communication: 

• Partner with Product Owners to develop product plans and roadmaps driving features from ideation to launch. 

• Manage and coordinate inter-team dependencies to enable seamless delivery. Collaborate with teams to identify refine prioritize and plan dependencies for efficient execution and timely outcomes. 

Technical Awareness: 

• Develop a strong understanding of the technical aspects of products including architecture codebase and integration points to effectively remove impediments and facilitate informed productive discussions. 

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Qualifications :

You Have: 

• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related technical field 

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least 3 years for a software development team that was applying Scrum principles and practices 

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership facilitation situational awareness conflict resolution continual improvement empowerment and increasing transparency 

• Knowledge of various well-documented agile patterns and practices (e.g.: numerous Burndown technologies various Retrospective formats handling bugs estimation techniques) 

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and quality processes 

• Ability to work in multicultural projects and environments  

• Experience in using Jira and Confluence 

Preferred: 

• Experience in financial services or banking preferred 

• Relevant certifications will be considered as a plus 

• Appetite to take ownership of several initiatives  

• Good appreciation of current market trends (Cloud Data Analytics AI Emerging Technologies etc.) and how these are likely to impact key industry players  

• Dedication to working with your colleagues as part of a high-performing team  

If you have a genuine desire to help businesses achieve their full potential this role is for you. 

Additional Information :

At MUFG Investor Services we are exceptionally proud of our approach to Hybrid Working. It enables the flexibility to thrive from wherever our employees work and stay connected to their team and our culture. When we make Hybrid Working plans we get to know the individual and pride ourselves in underpinning all our decisions with fairness and consistency.

MUFG Investor Services provides all of its employees with an extremely attractive compensation addition to base salary there is a group medical insurance scheme group pension scheme reimbursement of professional subscriptions paid holidays and assistance towards gym memberships.

We thank all candidates for applying; however only those proceeding to the interview stage will be contacted. If you are contacted for a job opportunity please advise us of any accommodations needed to ensure fair and equitable access throughout the recruitment and selection process. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only to provide an accessible candidate experience.

MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time