Scrum Master

• Role Purpose : The Scrum Master will enable one or more cross-functional Trading IT squads to deliverhigh-quality, compliant, and resilient technology capabilities that support front-to-back trading workflows (e.g., market data ingestion, pricing, risk, order/execution management, trade capture, PnL). This role coaches teams in Agile values and practices, removes delivery impediments, optimizes flow, and shields the team from noise while ensuring alignment with Trading priorities, regulatory constraints, and production stability requirements.
• Key Responsibilities :

-Team Facilitation & Agile Delivery

-Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement,Sprint Review, Retrospective) with purpose and outcomes.

- Enable predictable delivery: maintain healthy sprint goals, definition of ready/done,and transparent work visualization.

- Drive flow e0iciency: reduce WIP, cycle time, and hando0 waste; promote slicing,pairing/mob programming, and test-first mindset.

- Design and maintain dashboards to summarize sprint and PI performance,including planned vs. unplanned work, velocity trends, cycle time, and other keydelivery metrics for transparency and data-driven decision-making.

- Impediment Resolution & Risk Management

- Proactively identify and remove impediments (environment access, test data,release approvals, dependencies).

- Coordinate with platform/infra teams for non-functional readiness (performance,resilience, observability).

- Support production stability practices: incident management, problemmanagement, error budget tracking, and change risk assessment to reducebusiness impacts

- Stakeholder & Dependency Management

- Partner with Product Owner(s), Trading stakeholders, and Tech Leads to ensureclear, prioritized backlog aligned to business value.

- Manage external dependencies with other IT teams

- Maintain transparent comms on commitments, risks, and delivery forecasts toleadership.

- Coaching & Continuous Improvement

- Coach team and PO on Agile/Scrum, Lean, and flow metrics; mature practicesiteratively.

- Foster a culture of psychological safety, data-driven decisions, and continuouslearning.

- Governance, Compliance & Controls (Trading Context)

- Ensure ceremonies and artifacts support auditability (traceability from businessrequirement to release).

- Align with regulatory and internal controls (e.g., change windows, SoD, audit trails,maker-checker).

- Track and report delivery and operational KPIs to Trading IT leadership.

• Required Qualifications & Experience

- 2-3 years as a Scrum Master (or Agile Delivery Lead) in complex, high-availabilityenvironments.

- Hands-on with Agile tooling: ADO; familiarity with CI/CD (Git, Azure DevOps), automatedtesting.

- Strong servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder managementskills.

• Preferred

- Certifications: PSM I/II or CSM, or SAFe SSM

- Exposure to DevOps practices, and cloud (Azure/AWS)

- Experience in Trading/Commodities/Energy is a plus or similar domains where latency,reliability, and compliance matter.

- Working knowledge of trading lifecycle systems: market data, pricing, risk, tradecapture/settlement, or PnL.