Scrum Master

Place of work
Swiss Re, Mlynské nivy, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 2 200 EUR/monthOur final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to join our Corporate Functions IT organization. You will work closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads of The Squads which deliver and manages end-to-end digital solutions to Swiss Re’s Corporate Functions. With your help, the Squad(s) can understand their performance and continuously identify improvement opportunities.

About the Role
- Support Product Owners of three different Squad(s) to manage and prioritize the Product backlog.
- Conduct Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to agile principles.
- Help to remove obstacles, foster collaboration, and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
- Lead the Squad(s) to be self-organized.
- Support and promote an effective feedback culture based on the Agile values.
- Ensure that decisions are made within the Squad(s), encouraging, and supporting Squad(s) members to assume responsibility for their decisions.
- Measure and monitor the squad's Agile maturity and provide constructive feedback to the team to help continuously improve.
- Enable Squad(s) to track progress and output through dashboards (e.g., burn-down charts) and other reporting systems and maintain relevant metrics and artefacts.

About the Team

The Corporate Functions InfoTech team is part of Group Functions IT in Group Digital & Technology Organization. The team delivers and manages end-to-end digital solutions to Swiss Re’s Corporate Functions. Corporate Functions InfoTech (i) enables employees to be their best and empower them to grow and deliver business value from first contact to leaving, (ii) provides employees with a safe and supported environment during their working journey wherever they are working from and clients a service excellence with professional hospitality and an engaging digital experience, (iii) provides solutions for services to build sustainable business platforms, manage (external) spend, ensure compliance and drive business excellence.

Employee perks, benefits

Benefits
- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Information about the selection process

Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

As a successful candidate for this role, you possess:

- Minimum 1 year of experience as a Scrum Master
- Having Agile/Scrum certification is a plus
- Demonstrable experience of Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc...)
- A continuous improvement mind-set and dedication to uncovering better ways of working.
- The ability to lead, coach, inspire and motivate others.
- Excellent facilitation, communication and people-interaction skills, incl. strong English skills (verbal, written).
- The ability to apply innovative and creative thinking to solve problems together with the squad to constructively address challenges and roadblocks.
- Experience in leveraging tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Miro, MS - Teams to support effective (virtual) collaboration.

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Lucia Vargova

ID: 4788514  Dátum zverejnenia: 19.4.2024  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 2 200 EUR/month