Scrum Lead
Position Overview
Job Title Scrum Lead
Location Birmingham
Corporate Title Assistant Vice President
Working within the Technology Data and Innovation (TDI), Archiving Technology group, the Scrum Lead (aka Scrum Master) is a servant leader and agile coach who helps the self-organizing, self-managing, agile team achieve its goals. The Scrum Lead is accountable for the agility of a team, the successful application of agile ways of working, and the removal of any impediments affecting the team. Enabling them to deliver their execution plans.
What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Provide support and guidance to their team – managing manage risks and dependencies, and removing blockers / impediments
- Embody the agile and lean values at the heart of our scaled agile framework
- Actively collaborate with the Product Owner/Manager to refine and prioritize the Team Backlog – especially when facilitating the team’s preparation for Quarterly Planning
- Facilitate the agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Team Demonstrations, and Team Retrospectives.
- Collect and present metrics illustrating the performance of the team, to facilitate their continuous improvement
- Work with the Agile Lead & Product Manager to assure strategy and execution alignment
Your skills and experience
- Experience of working in an agile environment, practicing Scrum, Kanban, XP, LESS or SAFe and sound understanding of DevOps practices; possessing Agile Certification and a strong knowledge of Agile fundamentals, values, manifesto and practical implementation
- Ability to create and manage metrics like burndown, burnup, velocity, feature lead time, predictability etc, and be able use this as evidence to coach the team on how to improve flow
- Effectively facilitate Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
- Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and GIT
- Experience of implementing multiple coaching techniques when working with Teams and Individuals (e.g. Active listening, powerful questioning, reflection, feedback, GROW model etc)
- Experience in working with Product Owner/Manager on refinement of the backlog ready for the Quarterly planning and execution Sprints
How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About us
Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.
We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
