Career Opportunities: Experienced Scrum Master for Nordic Payments (22089)

Job ID: 22089 
 

Looking for an exciting career opportunity? Come join our Payments Technology team and be part of building a state of the art Payments service!

Payments is at the centre of all our lives, from mobile paying your friend for last night’s dinner, to ensuring salary and pension payments for other companies, to executing advanced cross-border corporate payments enabling goods and services around the globe to change hands. This is an exciting time for payments globally and in the Nordics where companies like Nordea as well as the markets and regulators are moving at pace together to make payments simpler, faster and safer. Customer and payment volumes are growing in Nordea as we acquire businesses and continue to develop our Open Banking offering, so this is a great time to join an expanding team.

We are looking for you to bring your expertise and energy to all parts of the lifecycle across run and change with opportunities to work as a scrum master in our BizDevOps setup. If you are looking for a diverse and rewarding role in a growth area then apply today to join our team!
 

About this opportunity
 
Welcome to the Execution Leadership team in Nordic Payments Technology. We add value by orchestrating vital change initiatives covering instant and batch payments and payment capture solutions. As an Experienced Scrum Master, you will play a valuable role in advancing the digital transformation agenda at Nordea by managing teams in Nordic Payments service domain, catering for both agile and traditional IT deliveries.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and lead viable self-organizing teams
• Facilitate scrum team events, agile ceremonies and workshops
• Coach and mentor team members, establish feedback loops and encourage constant learning
• Motivate people and create a fun and energizing work environment built on trust and inclusion
• Develop a strong culture of knowledge sharing and drive relentless continuous improvements
• Steer problem-solving efforts, nurture stakeholder collaboration and guide conflict resolution

 
You’ll join a community of passionate and experienced execution leaders who thrive on teamwork, diversity and continuous learning. Our people enjoy plenty of trainings and learning opportunities, have flexible working hours and a possibility to work from home. The role is based in Helsinki, Warsaw or Tricity.

Who you are
 
Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  
 
To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent planning and organization skills, being able to coordinate across several teams
• Strong facilitation and coaching ability
• Dedicated, dependable and committed to empowering others
• Highly competent, adaptable and creative person who is open to change and continuous learning

 
Your experience and background:

• Demonstrable experience in the Scrum Master role, building high-performing teams in agile and distributed settings
• Firm grasp of agile methodologies (SAFe/Scrum), lean principles and project management, including financials, risk and dependency management
• Ability to collaborate effectively with talented teams, take initiative and procure results, as well as suggest practical actions to improve ways of working and implement best practices
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle, QA processes, CI/CD pipelines
• Solid knowledge of release & rollout process
• Ability to collaborate with external software vendors discussing software delivery, raising defects and expectations in resulting patching
• Completed Scrum master training (SAFe certification preferred)

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 26/09/2024. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Predrag Miskeljin at predrag.miskeljin@nordea.com.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.