Senior scrum master - maternity cover

Are you a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them improve and deliver their best work? As experienced Scrum Master, you will work as a credible Servant Leader for Product Owners of 3-4 Squads and the Squad Members, reporting to the Unit Head. You will support the work of the Squads by helping maintain the backlog and facilitating Scrum ceremonies like stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. You will ensure team performance is monitored through the Squad's dashboard and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter. As a catalyst, you drive improvements and changes to positively challenge the norm where the issues are outside of a squads’ control. You support process improvements within the wider organizational Unit of multiple Squads and on complex issues.

On this role, you:

• Are a servant leader with high emotional intelligence
• Coach and develop Scrum based Squads to be self-organized, and helping to remove their impediments
• Are a change agent with passion for working with people and squads to help them improve and deliver their best work
• Help the squad to keep focus. E.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the squad
• Support a Product Owner setting goals, scope for the Squads and supporting product backlog management
• Support backlog management, planning, delivery tracking and transparency using Azure DevOps
• Contribute to the org. Unit with proficient coaching & mentoring skills
• Mediates through conflicts, help the squad to make decisions, and encourage leadership in others
• Foster self-organization, collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Demonstrate proficient knowledge about agile frameworks and its principles
• Support and promote a feedback culture based on the Scrum values (commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect)
• Support a culture of continuous improvement of the squad's processes and productivity
• Exchange ideas and issues with other Scrum Masters

You will be expected to:

• Work with Squads who already know agile practices and behaviours since few years
• Lead and facilitate various Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint closing and planning, stand-ups, retrospectives
• Engage with individual Squad members to continuously identify opportunities to improve
• Use Azure DevOps to support planning, progress tracking and transparency of Squad delivery

Support the Product Owner maintain and refine the product backlog

• Review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
• Ensure work is appropriately balanced across the team and that all work is captured within the backlog

We are happy to meet you if you possess:

• More than 3 years experience working with agile teams following Scrum and Kanban methodologies, and strong understanding of agile practices, tools and techniques
• Capability to understand and speak the Engineer's language and understand the wider context of their day-to-day engineering work
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or comparable Agile delivery management tools, including backlog and work item management, sprint planning, dashboards and delivery tracking
• Experience with Swiss Re's Enterprise IT tools and processes, or similar in other international Enterprise IT organizations
• A continuous improvement mind-set and dedication to uncovering better ways of working
• Ability to influence behavior without having formal organizational hierarchy
• Excellent communications and people-interaction skills

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 3,300 and EUR 5,400 per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:​

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, ​
• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.​ Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.​ Take a next step in your career and hit APPLY button. We are looking forward to reviewing your application!

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world. Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability. If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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