Scrum Role_Vanguard_Manchester

Job Title: Scrum Master

About the Job you are considering:

The Scrum Master plays a critical role in enabling Investor Technology teams to deliver secure scalable cloud native solutions that support millions of UK retail investors Operating within a highly regulated financial services environment you will facilitate cross functional agile delivery teams building digital investor experiences on AWS You will champion Agile principles remove impediments foster collaboration and ensure teams continuously improve while adhering to Vanguards engineering compliance and security standards

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Agile Delivery Facilitation
• Lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies Daily Stand ups Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews Retrospectives Backlog Refinement
• Ensure predictable delivery through strong cadence discipline and transparent progress monitoring
• Maintain team focus on sprint commitments and align work to PI business priorities
• 2 Stakeholder Product Collaboration
• Partner closely with Product Owners UX Engineers Cloud Architects and Compliance stakeholders
• Support backlog refinement prioritisation and slicing work into customer centric increments
• Communicate team status risks dependencies and delivery forecasts across PI
• 3 Team Coaching Continuous Improvement
• Coach teams on Agile best practices flow optimisation DevOps culture and lean waste reduction
• Promote psychological safety constructive challenge experimentation and data driven improvement
• Strengthen engineering maturity by supporting adoption of automation CICD IaC and Cloud native patterns
• 4 Cloud Technology Awareness AWS Focus
• While you are not required to be a hands-on technologist the Scrum Master is expected to understand
• AWS native delivery patterns Lambda ECS API Gateway DynamoDB CloudWatch etc
• Security resilience and compliance expectations of financial services cloud platforms
• DevOps pipelines release management automated testing and observability practices
• 5 Governance Risk Management
• Ensure Scrum delivery aligns with Vanguards risk audit and compliance controls e.g. secure coding change management operational resilience
• Support regulatory documentation readiness for audits and technology risk review
• Promote secure by design and cloud well architected thinking

Your Skills:

Strong experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead in technology teams
• Proven track record supporting cross functional engineering teams ideally building digital consumer facing platforms
• Working knowledge of cloud delivery environments AWS strongly preferred
• Excellent facilitation coaching conflict resolution and servant leadership skills
• Experience with Jira Confluence CICD pipelines and agile metrics Cumulative Flow Cycle Time Velocity
• Ability to operate in regulated financial services contexts with high standards for quality security and resilience
• Desirable
• Experience in investment wealth or retail financial services platforms
• Exposure to domain driven design microservices architecture and API centric ecosystems
• SAFe PSM II or other advanced Agile certifications

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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