The Financial Services industry is operating in a challenging environment due to global economic pressure, increasing regulatory demands and capital requirements as well as significant operational and technology changes.

Our Financial Crime Technology team in Poland delivers innovative products and consulting services to global PwC clients, addressing key challenges in the Anti Financial Crime area (Anti Money Laundering, Combating Terrorism Financing, Fraud Risk Management, FATCA and Financial Sanctions implementation etc.).

Scrum Master in Technology Team, Financial Crime Unit

The role

• Work collaboratively with internal teams to organize and define Sprints and Sprint goals, allocate time and oversee timetable of meetings 

• Promote, facilitate and apply Scrum framework (values, events, artifacts) on development projects

• Provide on time and accurate reporting (estimates of capacity, Sprint planning, Sprint closing etc.)

• Capture agreed action items and run meeting minutes to provide precise update 

• Analyse the sprint progress and monitor remaining work to achieve the Sprint Goal, provide updates to all project team members and notify all the stakeholders of any priority changes

• Support product owner and Technology development teams to define their Sprint goals and prioritize their backlog in line with agreed release plan

• Work on internal initiatives developing new value propositions for our Clients

• Coach junior staff
   

Candidate’s profile

• Prior experience in a role of Scrum Master

• Min 2 years experience in agile development process (any role)

• Proficient user of  application lifecycle management systems (TFS, Jira)

• Knowledge of software development processes and procedures

• Good knowledge of agile methods, frameworks and techniques,

• Innovative, entrepreneurial and eager to learn

• Very strong organizational skills

• Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with ability to summarize complex issues / data sets to be able to share effective targeted management information

• Excellent verbal and written business communication skills (e.g.  the good abilities to prepare management presentations)

• Ability to manage multiple initiatives with defined timelines and keeping key senior stakeholders and technology and operations partners appropriately updated

We offer

• Opportunity to use your technology and business skills to address global financial crime challenges

• Participation in design and implementation of new products and services that leverage cutting edge technology

• Opportunity to broaden your professional experience by delivering complex and innovative technology / data analytics consulting projects

• Work in an international team providing services to leading global financial institutions (based in Europe, US, Asia and Africa)

• Collaboration with high profile, ambitious IT professionals

• Great atmosphere and comfortable working environment