Scrum Role_Vanguard_Manchester

Job Title:
Scrum Master

The Scrum Master plays a critical role in enabling Investor Technology teams to deliver secure scalable cloud native solutions that support millions of UK retail investors. Operating within a highly regulated financial services environment you will facilitate cross functional agile delivery teams building digital investor experiences on AWS. You will champion Agile principles, remove impediments, foster collaboration and ensure teams continuously improve while adhering to Vanguards engineering compliance and security standards.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

• Agile Delivery Facilitation
• Lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies:
  Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement
• Ensure predictable delivery through strong cadence discipline and transparent progress monitoring
• Maintain team focus on sprint commitments and align work to PI business priorities
• Stakeholder Product Collaboration
• Partner closely with Product Owners, UX Engineers, Cloud Architects and Compliance stakeholders
• Support backlog refinement, prioritisation and slicing work into customer centric increments
• Communicate team status, risks, dependencies and delivery forecasts across PI
• Team Coaching Continuous Improvement
• Coach teams on Agile best practices, flow optimisation, Dev Ops culture and lean waste reduction
• Promote psychological safety, constructive challenge, experimentation and data driven improvement
• Strengthen engineering maturity by supporting adoption of automation, CICD, IaC and Cloud native patterns
• Cloud Technology Awareness AWS Focus
• While you are not required to be a hands‑on technologist the Scrum Master is expected to understand
• AWS native delivery patterns:
  Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cloud Watch, etc.
• Security resilience and compliance expectations of financial services cloud platforms
• Dev Ops pipelines, release management, automated testing and observability practices
• Governance Risk Management
• Ensure Scrum delivery aligns with Vanguards risk audit and compliance controls (e.g. secure coding, change management, operational resilience)
• Support regulatory documentation readiness for audits and technology risk review
• Promote secure by design and cloud well‑architected thinking

• Strong experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead in technology teams
• Proven track record supporting cross functional engineering teams, ideally building digital consumer-facing platforms
• Working knowledge of cloud delivery environments (AWS strongly preferred)
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution and servant leadership skills
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, CICD pipelines and agile metrics (Cumulative Flow, Cycle Time, Velocity)
• Ability to operate in regulated financial services contexts with high standards for quality, security and resilience
• Desirable
• Experience in investment, wealth or retail financial services platforms
• Exposure to domain-driven design, microservices architecture and API-centric ecosystems
• SAFe, PSM II or other advanced Agile certifications

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level
2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

• You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
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