Scrum Master-Financial Services
Job Description
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced, Scrum Master to join our Capital Markets and Managed Services product organisation to support Report Hub. You will play a critical role in enabling high-performing agile delivery squads. Acting as a servant leader and coach, the Scrum Master ensures the effective application of agile principles, facilitates delivery processes, and supports the squad in achieving consistent, high-quality outcomes aligned to business and client objectives.
This role is instrumental in promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and transparency, while removing impediments and ensuring the team operates efficiently within Delta Capita’s agile delivery framework.
Key Responsibilities
· Agile Delivery & Ceremony Management: Facilitate all core agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
· Impediment Removal & Risk Management: Identify, track, and remove blockers that impact team delivery while actively managing risks, issues, and dependencies (RAID) and escalate when required. Including supporting the squad in navigating cross-team and stakeholder dependencies.
· Agile Coaching & Continuous Improvement: Coach squad members on agile principles, best practices, and ways of working, while promoting a culture of continuous improvement and team self-organisation. Continue to drive improvements in delivery performance, team health, and collaboration.
· Delivery Oversight & Performance Tracking: Track sprint progress, velocity, capacity, and delivery metrics (e.g. burndown charts) ensuring accurate and up-to-date management of delivery tooling (e.g. JIRA boards). Provide clear and transparent reporting to stakeholders.
· Backlog & Planning Support: Work closely with the Product Owner to support backlog refinement and prioritisation. Ensuring user stories are well-defined, appropriately sized, and ready for delivery, supporting alignment across sprint goals, release plans, and overall product roadmap.
· Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a key interface between the squad, Product Owner, and wider delivery stakeholders. Facilitate effective communication across business, product, and technology teams and support alignment with programme-level objectives and delivery milestones.