Scrum Master

Scrum Master Financial Conduct Authority – Permanent, Full-Time Background The Scrum Master works within a multi-disciplinary digital product team (squad) aimed at delivering assignments supporting the development of the FCA’s Digital Unified Intelligence Environment (DUIE). They lead Agile ceremonies and create a harmonious environment that enables the product team to deliver on its commitments effectively. What does the role involve? What are the key responsibilities?

• Guides and coaches the digital product team on the use of Agile practices and principles
• Facilitates and supports Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
• Optimises the flow of work through the digital product team, supporting the Product Owner in creating product roadmaps and combing backlogs.
• Prepares and distributes reports on the performance of the product team – including cadence, velocity, and burndown against its commitments.
• Resolves risks, issues, interdependencies and manages external relationships on behalf of the digital product team.
• Creates a harmonious environment, managing conflict quickly and appropriately, creating a trusting and co-operative environment to enable the team to perform to its optimal level.
• Estimate and co-ordinate releases with product release management, project managers and business stakeholders aligning to project timescales, release calendars and stakeholder needs.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the FCA, coordinating with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to ensure that processes are optimised.

What will the candidate get from the role?

• Being part of a dynamic and newly established team and Division, working with colleagues that are passionate about the role of user centred design in digital service delivery
• Learning and development tailored to your role, including industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• Training budget, enabling you to attend conferences, events, meetups to develop your community of practice
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks

Which minimum, essential & desirable skills are required? We’re a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate’s CV. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. Minimum

• Substantial experience as a Scrum Master, IT Delivery Manager or IT Project Manager
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• 5+ years’ experience working in a software development environment

Essential

• Demonstrable experience overseeing multi-functional project teams
• Ability to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to the Agile process
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as Definition of Done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Ability to solve problems and resolve conflicts in high pressure environments
• Outstanding organisational skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Substantial experience of configuring software tools to support issue and project tracking, backlog management, and reporting.

Desirable

• Business acumen in either financial services or financial regulation
• Experience collaborating with highly technical colleagues/stakeholders (data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, technologists etc.)
• Knowledge of the Design Thinking process.

About the FCA At the FCA, we’re creating a fair and more resilient financial system. We’re establishing more transparent relationships between financial services and their customers, building trust in financial markets and protecting vulnerable consumers. The FCA's Values & Diversity Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator. The FCA supports hybrid working and you will be expected to work 40% of your time over a month, in our office. We will consider other flexible arrangements, for example part time working, and you can discuss this with the recruiter. Useful Information We are recruiting for a Scrum Master. The role is graded as Senior Associate within our Regulatory Career Family. The FCA has a national role and is committed to a national footprint. This role can be based in London, Leeds and Edinburgh. The FCA has London and National Pay ranges to reflect regional differences. London salary range is approximately £50,000 to £75,000 National salary range (including Edinburgh and Leeds) is approximately £47,000 to £67,000 In addition to your basic salary, you will receive an additional flexible allowance. Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as Critical illness cover, Travel insurance, Dental insurance or Cycle to work or you have the option to top up your base salary by taking this allowance as cash. Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year (plus Bank Holidays)
• Private medical insurance cover for yourself
• Life assurance of eight times of basic salary
• Income protection of 50% of basic salary
• Pension contributions of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35).

To read more about our competitive benefits package please click here The job post will close on Sunday 2nd April 2023. We encourage you to submit applications as soon as possible as due to high volumes, some job postings may close early. For more information, please contact Melanie.Dubock@fca.org.uk if you are an internal candidate and Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk if you are an external candidate. Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.