Scrum Master (f/m/x) – Corporate Bank Technology – Merchant Solutions

Position Overview

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin
DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #Global Hausbank solutions from our home market.

Merchant Solutions Technology

The Merchant Solutions Technology group provides the Corporate Bank with a dedicated team that capitalizes on the rapidly evolving technology industry to provide our clients new products and innovation to meet their growing needs within an Agile Fin Tech-like setup. We deliver innovative products such as our Digital Payment Gateway (creating an API based solution allowing Marketplaces and Merchant to streamline their payment processing and settlement activities). As part of our new team within the Berlin Tech Hub you will be responsible for technical design, coding, automated unit testing and integration and will liaise with the Product Owner, Architects, Product Managers, software engineers/developers and testers regarding the development and implementation of product lines using various technologies.

As a Scrum Master (f/m/x), you will serve as the pivotal facilitator between our business and technical delivery squads, fostering an agile environment that promotes effective collaboration. Your focus will be on ensuring seamless communication, maintaining a consistent workflow, achieving high throughput, upholding service stability, and delivering exceptional customer value.

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Your key responsibilities

• Facilitate agile ceremonies, through a clear understanding of the aim of each ceremony, taking corrective measures as required to ensure they are effective
• Help the agile team to continuously improve the effectiveness of their incremental delivery of value to clients & stakeholders by monitoring agile team metrics including velocity, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and team health while at the same time identifying inefficiencies in agile team operation and removing impediments to the agile team's progress
• Advise, facilitate, mentor and coach agile team members and stakeholders
• Understand the context of teams supported including strategic targets, delivery targets, structure, agile framework(s), constraints, team-dynamics, mindsets, human nature and technical considerations
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaborative environment and advocate self-organization
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and agile team to ensure a healthy prioritized product backlog and with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to continuously improve the agile process

Your skills and experiences

• You are an expert in Scrum, Scaled Agile processes, and related techniques, derived from leading agile teams in different environments and have several years of working experience
• You are comfortable offering guidance and leadership, both individually and at team levels
• You are passionate about agile values, coaching and supporting people to embrace changes to their way of working
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and dedication to finding new ways of working
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English; German language knowledge would be a plus.

Job Description:

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin
DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #Global Hausbank solutions from our home market.

Corporate Bank Phoenix
Within the Corporate Bank Germany, the Phoenix Program is established to focus on the 2029 target operating model, business and required technical architecture to enable a new level of efficiency and quality of customer experience.

Through the Phoenix Program our target is to redesign our processes to make efficiency gains and thereby reduce our cost-to-service. At the same time, we want a first-class customer experience throughout the entire client lifecycle, which will allow us to make better use of our clients' wallets in the long term. We aim to increase scalability through a globally consistent, modern tech and data platform.

In Phoenix Corporate Bank’s business and DB technology staff work integrated in agile teams what provides engineers a unique opportunity to apply latest technology while learning about the products and processes of the bank.

As a Scrum Master (m/f/x) you will work across our two Squads and actively live and promote agile thinking and culture as well as enable the team to work as efficiently as possible by removing obstacles and distractions.

• > You love this job but feel you cannot tick 100% of the boxes? Send us your CV anyway!

Your key responsibilities

• You facilitate Scrum ceremonies and closely collaborate with all Squad team members to ensure that a healthy prioritized product backlog is maintained, and Tribe and Squad goals are understood by everyone in the Squad
  
• You help the Squad to continuously improve the effectiveness of their incremental delivery of value to clients and stakeholders. Furthermore, you identify inefficiencies in the Squad operation and remove impediments to the Squad's progress
  
• You live and promote an agile mindset and culture within the Tribe. You act as a coach and facilitator within the team for self-organisation and cross-functionality – and deliver agile trainings within your Squads on demand
  
• You create physiologically safe environments for teams, enabling them to own their outcomes, surface dependencies & risks and escalate in a timely manner
  

Your skills and experiences

• You have several years of experience working in agile environments and applying agile methodologies and frameworks in practice (Scrum, Kanban), ideally in a scaled agile environment
  
• You have at least one year of experience working as a Scrum Master for one or several Scrum teams
  
• You are used to proactively structure and manage your workload and have very good organizational, communication and conflict management skills.
  
• You have strong motivational skills and practical experience in coaching others to continuously improve in their job
  
• You are a very good team player and are used to collaborate with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds and seniority levels. Furthermore, you can communicate fluently in English, German is a Plus
  

What we offer:
We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.
  
• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.
  
• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, Fitness Center Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
  
• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.
  

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.
Contact Luisa Moderzinski: 0151 - 565 16413

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