Agile Practitioner for Contextual Banking

**Agile Practitioner for Contextual Banking**:
**Job ID**:R0353747**Full/Part-Time**:Full-time**Regular/Temporary**:Regular**Listed**:2024-10-03**Location**:Pune**Position Overview**:
**Job Title
- **Scrum Master & Release Manager**

**Location
- Pune, India**

**Role Description**

Deutsche Bank is actively renewing its digital channels and has started many strategic and challenging projects. Next to some major technological changes Deutsche Bank has decided to step into the Agile software development methodology in order to improve its agility and reduce time to market without scarifying quality.

The Scrum Master cum Release Manager operates at tribe leve, and is a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them maximize the value created by the Squad. They will do this by helping the team understand Agile theory, practices and values and translating this into practice by running the standard Agile ceremonies. The Scrum master develops and leads multi-discipline team(s), helping them to deliver value by facilitating progress and coaching them into a self-organized team. The Scrum Master will also coordinate with the different squads and release management to ensure successful delivery of features in production. The Scrum Master will have to work in close collaboration with other Squads and create value for deliverables. As a Release Manager is responsible for planning ,coordination and management of software releases across organization ensuring the governance, risk management and Compliance requirements are met.

Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

**What we’ll offer you**

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
- Best in class leave policy
- Gender neutral parental leaves
- 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
- Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
- Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
- Accident and Term life Insurance
- Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

**Your key responsibilities**

Governance & Compliance
- Release planning and management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder management
- The role involves collaborating with cross functional teams to ensure that releases are delivered on time within scope and with mínimal risk to Organization
- Establish and maintain release governance process to manage risk and compliance in release cycle
- Develop the Squad as a self-organized team that is responsible and accountable for delivering business value
- Provide Agile coaching & leadership to the Squad team members to embed the Agile values and practices
- Plan and coordinate with other Squads to ensure proper delivery of own squad scope and cross squad features in production

**Your skills and experience**
- Knowledge and experience in agile principles and frameworks: e.g. Scrum, SAFe - Minimum 5 years
- Minimum 5 years of experience as Release Manager

**PSM 1 Certified**
- Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair working, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Familiar with tools for agile team management: e.g. JIRA, Confluence
- Goods skills of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
- Scrum Master certified and experienced
- Understand and promote agile values: FROCC (Focus, Respect, Openness, Commitment, and Courage)
- A great team player who is comfortable helping point out impediments
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
- Experience with distributed, multi-locations teams
- Able to inspire and motivate people and multi-disciplinary, self-organized teams
- Experience or technical knowledge in financial environments is a must.
- Professional level of English

**How we’ll support you**
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