Scrum Master (Senior) - BNP Paribas Fortis
Description
BNP Paribas Fortis is seeking a Senior Scrum Master for its Artificial Intelligence tribe in Brussels. The tribe wants to increase its Agile maturity. The mission particularly values experience establishing Scrum and sprint-based working from scratch. The consultant will be a key reference for the team’s Agile practices.
The Scrum Master will organize and facilitate ceremonies, support backlog management, and track capacity and velocity. The role includes coaching project teams, Product Owners, business lines and stakeholders. The consultant will remove impediments, protect team focus, and support self-organization. Reporting, risk and issue management also form part of the mission.
The consultant will participate in a tribe community of practice and may join a company-wide Scrum Master guild. The work involves collaboration with local and offshore teams in English. It requires strong Agile expertise, understanding of development and testing tools, and servant leadership. The stated working arrangement is half on site and half from home.
Top Reasons to Apply
Shape AI tribe agility
Build Scrum practices
Coach cross-functional teams
Join Scrum guild
Hybrid Brussels assignment
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Share practices across guild
- Harmonize team working methods
- Set up Daily Stand-ups
- Facilitate Sprint Reviews
- Facilitate Sprint Planning
- Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives
- Facilitate other project meetings
- Schedule methodology key steps
- Track methodology key steps
- Ensure smooth Scrum adoption
- Help teams overcome obstacles
- Support Product Owner backlog
- Support Definition of Done
- Support Sprint Backlog delivery
- Track team capacity metrics
- Track team velocity metrics
- Coach and challenge teams
- Promote gradual team self-organization
- Remove team effectiveness barriers
- Champion company Agile methods
- Report Scrum deployment progress
- Manage project risks and issues
General skills
- At least 3 years of relevant experience
- Experience implementing Scrum and sprint ways of working from scratch
- Expert knowledge of agile methodology and techniques (e.g. Kanban)
- Sound knowledge of English and ability to communicate with both local and off-shore teams
- Positive attitude and empathy
- Excellent communication skills
- Pragmatic listening and problem-solving support
- Create an environment of open feedback and trust
- Encourage knowledge and best-practice sharing
- Proactively develop team and individual competences
- Continuous improvement through feedback and adaptation
- Encourage collaboration, team building and autonomy
- Persuasion before authority and questions before instructions
- Support team problem-solving before providing answers
- Align actions with IT strategy
- Servant leadership and Agile mindset
- Work in cross-functional teams and contribute beyond primary discipline toward sprint goals
Technical skills
- Understanding of automated unit testing tooling
- Understanding of automated functional testing tooling
- Understanding of continuous integration tooling
- Sound knowledge of software development methodology
- Sound knowledge of project management methodology
Tools
- Knowledge of agile reporting and follow-up tools (e.g. Jira)