Job Description
We are looking for a Scrum Master Agile coach to work in London on a contract basis. We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support delivery teams in the Front Office Power Trading domain. The role focuses on planning, organizing, facilitating, and continuously improving agile ways of working in a complex, trading‑critical environment.
The Scrum Master will be an agile Coach and will act as a facilitator, organizer, and coach, ensuring effective agile ceremonies, strong backlog management, transparent communication, and stable delivery — even under changing priorities and external constraints typical for a trading organization.
Key Responsibilities
Agile Ceremonies & Formats (Trading Environment)
- Plan, organize, facilitate, and follow up on agile ceremonies and team formats in the a trading environment, including:
- onsite workshops, covering agenda design, invitations, logistics alignment, facilitation, and securing outcomes
- backlog refinement sessions, ensuring clarity and readiness of items
- planning sessions (sprint or iteration planning)
- Regular weekly meetings (e.g., weekly team meetings, status rounds)
- Foster agile thinking and structured collaboration across all facilitated formats.
Backlog Management & Team Focus
- Ensure the product backlog is:
- Up to date
- Clearly understandable
- Meaningfully structured and prioritized
Tooling: Jira & Azure DevOps
- Use Jira for:
- Issue and ticket management
- Boards, workflows, and issue types
- Backlog organization and progress transparency
- Use Azure DevOps for:
- Work item management
- Sprint and iteration assignment
- Boards and backlogs
- Ensure digital tooling is used consistently to support transparency and delivery.
Facilitation, Organization & Communication
- Demonstrate strong skills in:
- Meeting organization (agenda setting, invitations, timeboxing, securing outcomes)
- Facilitation (calm, clear, goal‑oriented)
- Communication and mediation between teams, product owners, and stakeholders
- Create alignment and clarity in a multi‑stakeholder trading environment.
Agile Ways of Working
- Apply and stabilize Scrum practices (mandatory).
- Apply Kanban practices where appropriate (preferred).
- Continuously inspect and adapt agile practices to improve team performance and delivery outcomes.
Required Experience & Skills
- Proven experience delivering agile ceremonies in a trading or comparable critical delivery environment, including:
- ≥ 3 onsite workshops
- ≥ 10 refinement sessions
- ≥ 10 planning sessions
- ≥ 50 weekly team/status meetings
- Demonstrated capability in backlog management, prioritization, and team focus.
- Practical hands‑on experience using:
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Strong facilitation, organization, and communication skills.
- Proven experience applying Scrum (Kanban experience appreciated).
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