Scrum Master

Career Opportunity

Who We Are

Imagine working for an organization where every employee and customer is an Owner.

No matter whether a customer Owner or employee Owner, everything we do at Libro is about helping people prosper. We recruit and develop high-quality candidates like you who are ready to offer the best possible advice, coaching and service, when and how our Owners need it.

Libro invests heavily in the development and career ambitions of our staff. Our hiring philosophy is focused on finding candidates who carry a positive attitude, a desire to learn, and a passion for helping our staff and Owners (customers) grow financial confidence. We commit to teaching and supporting you as you learn the skills you need.

What Opportunity Awaits?

Libro is on a mission to find a passionately accountable full-time Scrum Master supporting our London Administration location.

The Scrum Master is responsible for leading squads to create and deliver quality solutions and services at their fastest pace. This role influences and facilitates coaching, creativity, self-improvement, and empowerment for the squad, educating them in Scrum methodologies, and ensures the agile process is being followed to achieve team goals. The Scrum Master also helps remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Coach and guide the squad and organization on how to use scrum, agile practices and methodologies, and Kanban
• Oversee the overall scrum and agile process for assigned squad(s) and ensures the theory, practices, rules, and values of agile are being followed to align with Libro Ways of Working and agile practices.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and planning meetings in a way that ensures full engagement of the squad.
• Establish an agile mindset within the squad through conversations, coaching, and role-playing exercises. Always promotes innovative thinking and self-improvement.
• Scrum Masters at Libro will work together on promoting best practices, lessons learned and ensuring agile team alignment.
• Support the Product Owner to facilitate discussion on prioritization and timing of new releases and changes that the team is launching.
• Limit impediments to the squad’s success, such as cultural barriers or logistical challenges, supporting the Product Owner, Project Owner, or leader, and ensuring that the squad’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders through ongoing internal communication and key results reporting.
• Have hands on involvement in the product and backlog planning.
• Understand and communicate the vision for the experience they are building towards and engages beyond process e.g. in solution design, customer feedback and testing, understanding of data / insights.
• Provide functional/technical guidance to Agile team members and shared service staff on how to leverage agile, lean and human centered design principles and frameworks to solve problems and drive Owner value
• Cultivate a trusting environment where issues can be raised without fear of negative consequences.
• Understand context of the business and the technology sufficiently to problem-solve with development squad or project team, asks the right questions and owns solution quality and continuous delivery to customer.
• Create and maintain visual management tools in close collaboration with the squad (Spring boards, Dashboards, Kanban boards, objectives and key results, etc.).
  
  

Could this be you? Are you ready to join an exciting team at Libro?

• Do you have a passion that aligns with Libro’s Purpose? We want to strengthen financial well-being for a better tomorrow and we’re looking for people to join us in making a difference to people, businesses, and communities.
• Do you display the Libro values of Accountability, Courage, High Performance and Inclusive Mindset?
• Do you have a post-secondary degree or diploma in IT, Computer Science or related discipline?
• Do you have demonstrated direct leadership experience; project leadership, working in a financial services industry?
• Do you have 3 years’ experience being a Scrum Master and in program or project management?
• Do you have a Certified SCRUM Master designation (or to be completed within 12 months of accepting the role)?
  
  

Some of the ways we show Libro is an outstanding employer:

• Competitive salaries and employee pension plans.
• Comprehensive benefit package, with all premiums paid for by Libro!
• Generous vacation time.
• Employee wellness programs.
• Staff accounts and staff rates on products and services.
• Staff appreciation programs and awards.
• Career development opportunities including tuition assistance.
• Many great perks and rewards; fitness club discounts, technology offers, travel and entertainment deals, just for being part of our great team! 
  
  

If you're passionate about helping your community, interested in being part of a remarkable team, and want to do your part to strengthen financial well-being for a better tomorrow - we want to hear from you!

With a purpose beyond profit, Libro Credit Union is proud to be a Certified B Corporation, joining leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good.

Libro is committed to fostering a safe, healthy, and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. As an inclusive employer we are committed to providing a fully accessible recruitment process. Email us at [email protected] any time during the recruitment process to let us know what supports you may need to be successful.