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Equity Index Scrum Master

Role Purpose - Scrum Master - Data & Analytics

Do you have a passion for technology?

Do you want to make a difference, delivering software used by some of the biggest companies in the world?

Do you love working with others in a dynamic agile environment?

We are looking for an enthusiastic Scrum Master to join our team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers. As a scrum master, you will be aligned to the delivery team responsible for the planning, development, and delivery of Equity IT products for the FTSE Russell business.

This is a hands-on Scrum Master role with focus on delivering results on-time, in-full, and to the agreed quality levels. Contribute directly to the agility of the team and the overall performance for your Scrum Team, ensuring that results are clearly understood, planned, and completed with attention to detail and entrepreneurial ownership and approach to coordinating across teams and managing delivery RAID’s. The role forms part of the wider programme to design and build innovative, industry leading benchmarks and indices offerings to meet client and market needs and enable value targets for the associated business outcomes.

Role Responsibilities:

Facilitating and coaching the Sprint Planning, Sprint Retro and Sprint Review events to ensure they have the desired outcome.
Leading the Scrum Team on effective Daily Scrum and crafting Sprint Goals
Acting as a point of contact for the team – to ease the collaboration with the wider organisation.
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving visibility, and radiating information.
Working with the business, BAs and the Scrum Team to help delivery high velocity change
Helping the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation.
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and mentoring the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
Working with the Scrum Team to remove blockers, including with the wider development organisation to highlight and resolve impediments
Coaching the Scrum Team in Product Backlog Item (PBI) writing techniques (e.g., 3Cs, User Stories, Use Cases etc.)
Working with the Product Owner to establish project roadmaps and project timescales
Coaching the team in Agile Development Practices (e.g., Swarming, T-Shaping, TDD, BDD, Automated Testing)
Working with the Development Managers & QA Managers to help develop individuals
Working within the Agile Community of Practice, to coach teams and the organisation to adopt the Scrum Framework

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification, or similar, would be expected.
Experience of working within a multi-team environment, where scrum team’s success and output relies on collaborating, synchronising, and working with other scrum teams and the wider enterprise.
Strong and confident communication skills, able to build close relationships and interact with colleagues at various levels
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, tam building, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Strong understanding of JIRA, agile metrics, and Kanban techniques.
Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, etc.

Candidate Profile – Minimum Requirements

Technical / functional knowledge:

Proven hands-on experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes.
A real self-starter with the ability to make clear decisions and solve problems, generating solutions and ultimately getting the job done.
Significant experience with driving software development and scaled agile delivery.
Proven experience of leading the scoping, planning, execution, and delivery of high-profile IT outcomes.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of products (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
Sophisticated knowledge of JIRA and Confluence, be competent with creating and maintaining standardised delivery structures and frameworks need for collaboration, documentation, and reporting.
Experience with data management and data focussed projects.
Good experience in AWS preferred.

Business / Sector expertise:

Financial services or similar experience preferred but not essential.

Leadership & management experience:

This is an individual contributor role with delivery leadership aspects.
Experience in managing delivery teams.
Stakeholder engagement experience is ideal, alongside the management of external client/vendor relationships.

Personal skills & capabilities:

Excellent interpersonal skills.
Full of curiosity and a drive to learn.
Phenomenal team-mate, problem solver and a self-sufficient person with an ability to constructively address issues.

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

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Hybrid, based in London, United Kingdom

DATE POSTED

June 10, 2023