Scrum Master

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  1. Contract
  2. English
  3. Mid-Senior level
  4. Digital & Technology
  5. Zurich
  6. Financial Services

Skills

Scrum, Kanban, Agile

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As a successful candidate you will be working with two scrum teams in a global financial transformation project.

About our client

Our client is one of the leading insurance companies in Switzerland based in Zurich.
On behalf of our client, Swisslinx is currently looking for a Scrum Master got a contract until mid 2023 with the potential to extend or to be internalised.
This role can be based in Zürich or on a Full Remote basis.

Due to visa restrictions we can only consider EU or Swiss passport holders.

Your mission

- Awareness & Training: Develop and deliver training to teams and its ecosystem (stakeholders, subject matter experts...), Increase agile awareness, help creating an agile mindset across the enterprise. Organize events, build and support communities.
- Coaching & Transformation: accompany teams at various stages of their Agile journey, identify and address impediments. Develop & coach Team members and Product Owners
- Consulting: Advise on specific issues raised during the Agile journey across the organization
- Facilitation: Moderate and facilitate agile events, such as planning workshops, daily scrums, sprint reviews or retrospectives. Enable teams to run events autonomously.
- Ecosystem: Work closely with business analysts, accountants, actuaries, software developers, architects, testers, programme coordinators and agile leaders


Your background

- University degree in applied sciences, engineering or business
- Demonstrates proficiency in Scrum and/or Kanban (e.g. PSM I/II) or demonstrates equivalent knowledge
- Experience in building teams and driving continuous improvement and self-organisation within a squad
- 'Servant Leader' capabilities - co-creating a shared vision; developing high participation; empowering people and teams; transformative change; growing squad capability.
- Demonstrates the ability to use data driven techniques & and strategies to help a team become more predictable about change
- Coaching, training and mentoring experience
- Solid knowledge of relevant agile frameworks and experience in teaching these. Experience in applying SCRUM it at scale (i.e. SAFe, Less, Nexus, Scrum@Scale) is an advantage.
- Facilitation, leadership, and relationship building skills
- Team player, able to work independently with a creative and innovative mindset.
- Work experience in finance and accounting, i.e. understanding of accounting standards is an advantage
- Work experience in project work and liaising with various stakeholders, collaborating closely with various functions such as Finance, Actuaries, IT and Risk
- Advanced JIRA skills
- Strong verbal and written English skills, German is a plus

What’s on offer

- Work for an established Swiss company
- International, multi-cultural and young working environment
- Modern building, excellent canteen, gym on site
- Friendly colleagues

If you are a highly motivated, ambitious person, please apply via the portal or via the Swisslinx website. www.swisslinx.com

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