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Description
Job Introduction
Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.
We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.
Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.
We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.
Check our Handelsbanken website for further information
As the Scrum Master (Delivery) you will work with established agile teams using agile methodologies and practices, which may include Scrum and Kanban as well as other approaches, and act as coach, guide, and facilitator to ensure the team’s optimal performance and focus on delivery of value. You will drive continual improvement and support the team’s learning and ever-increasing maturity in agile practices and strong value delivery. Generally, one Scrum Master (Delivery) will work with up to three agile teams.
Key Responsibilities
Act as a servant leader for agile teams, facilitate agile scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and sprint retro
Working with Digital/Agile Product Owners, helping them to manage their vision and create the product roadmap
Support the Product Owner and Tech Leads with backlog management for both business and technical stories
Facilitate the removal of impediments and help to improve flow throughout the route to live
Coaching the team to improve velocity, flow and delivery of value through sprint retros and continuous improvement
Ensure the team is managing and tracking risks and blockers effectively
Championing agile behaviours within the teams
Supporting the full development lifecycle
Mentoring new Scrum Masters (Apprentice)
Help assess maturity of existing teams with a view to improvement
Support teams in estimating and refine features
Improving the team’s ability to make and deliver against commitments and use of metrics and agile reports for this
Support portfolio reporting and required governance
Provide Digital/Agile Product Owners with support in creating product roadmaps and feature definitions, MVP and release plans
Work to create self-sufficient and highly mature cross-functional agile teams
Identify classroom, coaching and individual training needs for the team to support their ongoing development
Where required, work with basic Scaling approaches to align with Group, such as PI Planning and PI Execution.
Facilitate initiation for new types of work
Ability to facilitate feature kick-off sessions (for teams are not working in PIs)
Contribute to the Scrum Master Community of Practice and overall adoption of agile ways of working in HB plc including supporting other colleagues and seeking help from other colleagues as required
Help develop better tooling for agile teams and support the Enablement and Practice Centre of Excellence in this.
What We’re Looking For
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Experienced in leading agile, software, development teams
Effective influencing and motivation skills
Being resilient and staying calm under pressure
Strong stakeholder management
Mindset of continuous improvement
Analytical and able to diagnose the teams’ and individuals, agile skill development needs
Broad knowledge and experience of agile frameworks and practices, deep knowledge of Scrum and Kanban
Some understanding of SAFe would be useful
Extensive experience in one of JIRA or Azure DevOps and strong working knowledge of Confluence
Good knowledge and experience of widely successful agile techniques such as user stories, Behaviour Drive Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous/automated testing, pair programming, automation, etc
Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle and its path to production, including experience working in moderate to highly mature DevOps environments
Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
Experience of working as a Scrum Master for up to 3 agile teams simultaneously
Very capable in planning and managing dependencies
Experience of working in immature agile organisations with limited experience in Product Ownership
Good basic understanding of agile metrics and when and how to use them, including burn down, continuous flow and other standard reports
We are interested in hearing from Scrum Masters who have varying degrees of technical understanding, but all must be able to work with software development teams
Why join Handelsbanken
We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind.
In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
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