Looking Candidates for Senior Manager - Scrum Master

Job Description

* Role Responsibilities Day to day responsibilities within the squad
• Ensure overall delivery of projects within defined scope, quality, time, and cost requirements by adhering to Banks Project Management Standards and Governance Policy
• Define and execute end to end Delivery Strategy by working with technology teams including, Product Owner and Chief Scrum Master
• Work with business stakeholders to ensure business requirements/User Stories are adequately defined and aligned to project/Client Journey objectives/ goals.
• Identify optimization opportunities for project execution, testing and verification.
• Work with multiple Business, Regional and Technology QPR team for initiatives prioritization, Request management tracking via Share point, JIRA, Clarity
• Organize sprint planning sessions & sprint reviews within teams to ensure a common understanding of sprint goals and review feedback
• Improved wider usage of collaboration tools like Jira, Mural, Trello boards and confluence for the appropriate scenarios
• Managing the end to end initiative plans, coordinating activities across all resources necessary to deliver the CLM Apps/ CLDM initiatives including change management activities; within budget and time constraints.
• Setup of the Monthly Business Review (MBR) and Preparing quality MBR materials (ToR, Packs, Minutes etc.), including coordinating and support Quarterly Performance Review (QPR).
• Ensuring that all submissions to committees (Closure Reports) are of the right quality and are on a timely basis
• Project Progress Reporting - Provide periodic updates to Refinement forums (SRF, RF) and report project progress, early notification of RAIDs and milestone progress status
• Planning and Estimation - Planning & estimation and provide resource forecast, cost forecast for budgeting activities, this includes BAU Changes, changes due to externa system CRs etc.,
• Adopting new ways of working across all Client Coverage T&I Squads;
• Support in transitioning the traditional model of react and respond towards Systems Reliability Engineering by planning right in the inception stage of the project
• Support in developing our talent, driving diversity & inclusion and improving our engineering practices to promote a strong engineering culture;
• Enabling T&I as a trusted advisor to drive better client experience; and
• Drive T&I foundation requirements, with a focus on cloud adoption, cyber security, data analytics and obsolescence.
Strategy
• Strategize the Environment Provisioning, Cloud adoption and ways to reduce the TPS cost/optimize Infra footprint
Stakeholder Management
• Manage stakeholder expectations and influence stakeholders in understanding risk and impacts, importance and priorities on demand identification, assessment, response and reporting
• Maintain a good relationship with Technology services team, Architecture teams, Vendor management teams, Risk Management teams, COO stakeholders and Internal CC T&I teams. Be a problem solver while actively manage the relation with our stakeholders
Change Management
• Coordinate implementation and adoption of agreed initiatives across the function including communication and awareness with the CLM Apps Business Counterpart (PO/ Biz Owner)
• Work with change managers and integrate their activities across the squad.
• Work with change managers and squad to take up some of these activities as T-shaped skills within the squad reducing the gap between change teams and T&I
People and Talent
• Strong stakeholder management skills in handling wide ranging and senior stakeholders across segments/product areas
• Ability to work with cross functional teams across business and technology
• Ability to oversee execution of multiple initiatives, projects and product increments delivery
• As a SM, bring about recognition within the team. Set the team for team awards / individual recognition by duly advertising the contribution for wider recognition
• Elevate the teams to Performing stage (from forming and norming). Identify training areas and work with chapter leads to get the squad trained in the relevant areas
• Be conscious and look to address Diversity and inclusion agenda in all activities undertaken
Risk Management
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Governance
• Be the Gate-Keeper of the CEE agile management process, ensures the governance of the process is followed by internal and external stakeholders
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders CEE Stakeholders Other Responsibilities
• Client Lifecycle Management Experience is critical which includes having worked in a Multinational Bank s CC/KYC Team implementing releases of Global Nature. Additionally, having handled Country/Regulatory requirements for a Global Bank- Weightage 50%
• SCRUM Experience 50%
• Release Management Define yearly release calendars which includes engaging and aligning various teams (like, PSS, Operations, Business Stakeholders, Test Management etc.,)
• Security Impact Assessments Perform impact assessment and obtain the mandatory approvals for each release (this includes RAT, SIA process sign offs)
• Capacity Planning & infra Conduct capacity planning exercises with DevOps teams and estimate application load in production and plan adequate infra upgrades
• Financial Management Work closely with PMOs and provide monthly forecast for both Manday Vs non-man-day, ensure variances with-in limits.
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Keyskills :
financesalesltdmisaccountancyend to end deliverydelivery of projectskeeping things simplelarge scale transformationscrum masterhuman skillsproject risk