Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master

Location: 100% remotely from Poland (occasional visits in the office in Krakow)

Contract: B2B

Industry: Banking

Cooperation: Long-term

The role of Scrum Master is vital in supporting the delivery of complex, data-centric initiatives within a Centre of Excellence. This position emphasizes agile delivery, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration across technology and business domains to achieve the organization's goals.

Main Responsibilities:

• Facilitate agile delivery across one or more squads focused on data platforms, data products, or governance initiatives.
• Champion agile best practices, ensuring adherence to delivery frameworks and ways of working agreed within the Centre of Excellence.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Drive visibility of team progress using tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Clarity.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Data Architects, and Engineering teams to ensure delivery remains aligned with business objectives.
• Help identify and remove impediments, escalating where necessary while fostering team self-organisation.
• Support the implementation of governance practices including risk/issue tracking, milestone reporting, and RAID management.
• Coordinate with programme managers and other Scrum Masters to ensure cross-team dependencies are identified and managed.
• Ensure traceability of business requirements through to delivery, working closely with stakeholders on data accuracy, reuse, and compliance.
• Promote strong documentation, agile reporting, and audit-readiness where required.
• Use Excel and dashboard tools to support tracking, metrics, and reporting.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead in a financial services, highly regulated environment.
• Experience in the banking sector.
• Experience supporting delivery in data-driven or architecture-aligned programmes.
• Strong understanding of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Comfortable operating in matrixed organisations and aligning multiple stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience engaging both tech and non-tech stakeholders.
• Proficient with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Clarity, and Excel.
• Proficient in English.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams spanning data engineering, analytics, and business units.

Nice to Have:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, or other Agile certifications.
• Familiarity with business architecture tools (e.g. ARIS) or working with architecture-led delivery.
• Understanding of data governance, metadata, and regulatory data reporting.
• Previous exposure to Centre of Excellence environments or agile scaling models.

Other Details:

This position is aligned with a data-intensive initiative and requires a proactive approach to facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders. The Scrum Master will focus on delivering strategic data objectives within an agile framework.