Scrum Master (trading systems)
2 days ago
Paris
Job Summary: The Scrum Master plays a critical role in maximizing delivery performance and team effectiveness within the M7 Trading product team, in a business and product-oriented organization. More than a facilitator of Scrum ceremonies - in a context of outsourced engineering delivery, where product ownership and quality remain in-house while an affiliated group entity delivers engineering - this role focuses on optimizing delivery flow, strengthening team autonomy, and enabling predictable outcomes in a mission-critical trading environment. You will act as a system-level enabler, supporting the team and the wider organization to remove constraints, improve collaboration, and continuously enhance delivery performance - while maintaining a clear boundary from product decision-making. Key Focus Areas : • Delivery performance & predictability: Drive improvements in flow metrics (lead time, throughput, predictability) and help the team deliver consistently in a high-stakes environment, • Team autonomy & accountability: Strengthen team ownership, maturity, decision-making, and accountability for outcomes, • System-wide optimization: Identify and remove bottlenecks across teams, dependencies, and organizational boundaries, • Outsourced delivery model: Navigate and optimize collaboration challenges specific to an internal/outsourced organizational setup – within the company’s group., • Continuous improvement at scale: Enable data-driven improvement in a multi-product, highly interdependent environment Role positioning : • Serves the team, Product Owner, and organization as a delivery and flow enabler, • Does not own product decisions, but ensures the conditions for effective product delivery, • Operates at both team level and system level, • Operates within a cross-company delivery model – our provider being part of the company’s group - acting as a bridge between product needs, an outsourced development organization and customer acceptance, • Includes delivery coordination, stakeholder alignment, and dependency management across organizational boundaries Scope: M7 - Intraday Continuous Market Trading System A low-latency, high-performance trading platform, operating as one of the largest market systems, with Core Platform Coverage: • 24/7 mission-critical operations, • Continuous trading algorithms and matching engine, • End-to-end trading workflows (API and UI) Operating Environment: • Strict reliability and availability requirements, • High constraints on latency, throughput, and scalability, • Strong regulatory and market-driven constraints Team composition and governance • Business and product-oriented governance (Business segment working with products), • Core team composed of analysts (Business, Quality etc.) while the engineering team is outsourced to a partner. Key Responsibilities: 1. Optimize Delivery Flow & Team Performance: From ceremony to delivery outcomes Drive improvements in release management: • Lead time, • Throughput, • Sprint predictability Identify and challenge: • Bottlenecks, • Inefficiencies, • Overcommitment patterns 1. Strengthen Partnership with Service Provider Drive improvements on : • Delivery reliability from the service provider in partnership., • Quality and predictability of external contributions, • Transparency on progress and commitments, • Manage the specific dynamics of a cross-company delivery model:, • Work directly with provider’s functional analysts (not developers) and Product owner to align on requirements and priorities., • Develop a relationship with the provider’s scrum-master, • Coordinate the reception, testing, and acceptance of provider’s deliveries into our environment, • Support the effort to increase release cadence and reduce time to market, • Identify and address collaboration gaps, unclear ownership, inefficient handovers, and misalignments between internal teams and provider Promote: • A one-team mindset across internal and external contributors, • Clear roles, responsibilities, and ways of working, • Continuous feedback loops to improve collaboration and performance 1. Manage Transversal dependencies (CRITICAL) • Proactively identify dependencies across different products and teams, • Facilitate alignment between teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders, • Contribute to cross-team synchronization (Scrum of Scrums, etc.) 1. Support Product-Oriented Delivery Collaborate closely with Product Owners to: • Ensure backlog clarity, • Maintain focus on business value, • When needed, represent PO / Product Team in meetings related to Projects, initiatives, or issue resolution Develop a strong understanding of product challenges: • Release management, • Trading system and API trading., • Low latency architectural requirements 1. Remove Organizational Impediments Go beyond team-level blockers: • Address cross-team issues, • Escalate structural inefficiencies Challenge: • Slow decision processes, • Misaligned priorities 1. Drive Data-Driven Continuous Improvement Define and track KPIs: • Delivery predictability, • Cycle time, • Deployment frequency Use retrospectives as performance improvement tools Use metrics as success indicators: • Sprint predictability ≥ target defined with PO, • Lead time reduction, • Reduced cross-team blockers, • Increased deployment frequency, • Improved team autonomy (qualitative + measurable) 1. Lead Cross-Organizational Initiatives • Manage project-type initiatives involving multiple stakeholders (Market Ops, Sales, Technical Key Account Managers, provider) beyond single-team Scrum delivery, • Coordinate M7 impact assessments for new EPEX initiatives Soft skills and qualifications Expected mindset: • Broader thinker (team /product line /organization), • Outcome-driven (not ceremony-driven), • Proactive (manages risks, anticipates issues, doesn’t just react), • Comfortable with complexity (multi-product / dependencies), • Curiosity and motivation to engage with product challenges and agility at scale, • Comfortable operating in a business-oriented, multi-stakeholder environment, balancing delivery coordination, stakeholder alignment, and change enablement, • Skilled at managing outsourced delivery relationships without direct authority over the external We expect our Scrum Masters to act as flow leaders, not just facilitators Standard scrum master skills: • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent: Strong knowledge and multiple years of hands-on experience with Scrum Master role and Agile practices., • Agile Tools Proficiency: Competence in Agile backlog management tools such as Jira and Confluence, and remote collaboration tools like; Miro and Teams, • Clear Communication: Effectively articulate complex ideas and technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences., • Active Listening: Practice active listening to fully understand the needs and concerns of the team and stakeholders., • Conflict Resolution: Skilled in mediating conflicts and driving consensus. Education & Experience • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field., • Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification required. Additional certifications in Agile coaching, SAFe, DevOps, Lean, or Project Management would be considered an asset., • Proven track record of improving delivery predictability, optimizing team performance, and facilitating collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders.