Join our team as a Scrum Master!

Yes, you can! That's our attitude towards our work, ambitions, ideas and relationships. We, at Luminor, believe that anyone has the potential to achieve big things and encourage everyone to achieve them – professionally and personally.

Whoever you are, and whatever your role is, with Luminor you will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a local banking champion.

Scrum Master will be aiming to provide great internal customer experience, make the best use of IT resources and capabilities available and contribute to building competitive advantages for Luminor through effective delivery process.

We are looking for one Scrum Master for each area:

• Lending area
• Daily Banking area
• Business Support area

What You Will Do:

• Ensure team efficiency: work closely with squad lead, product owners, developers, infra SMEs and other stakeholders to optimize team efficiency, resolve conflicts, and promote a collaborative working environment. Ensure that the team follows established processes and procedures, focusing on compliance with the Agile (Scrum) framework
• Facilitate Scrum events: facilitate Scrum ceremonies (daily standups, retrospectives, backlog refinement sessions, Sprint planning sessions)
• Ensure high quality of documentation: be responsible for JIRA quality assurance (quality of user stories, content of a backlog, user story statuses etc.), providing guidance to the team for improvements
• Remove obstacles: identify and remove impediments that hinder the team's progress, enabling them to focus on delivering high-quality products within the sprint timelines
• Coach and mentor: coach team members fostering self-organization, accountability, and a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Promote best practices of Scum and Agile: promote Scrum/Agile environment and seek for the improvements in the existing processes in order to move closer towards Scrum and and Agile environment
• Resource management: manage existing resources; help with new hires; renewal of staffing requests within the team
• Release notes: facilitate preparation of release notes and communicate with release management to ensure smooth delivery process within organization
• Facilitate communication: facilitate communication and transparency within the team and with external stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned and informed about development goals, progress, and impediments

What We Expect:

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in software development team
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Certification as a Scrum Master (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) is preferred
• Experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.) is an advantage
• Excellent understanding of IT development life-cycle
• Practical experience, competence or knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills
• Change management agility
• Orientation to results
• Analytical thinking and ability to make decisions quickly
• Fluent English is required in spoken and written communication

What We Offer:

• Flexibility. Flexible working hours, remote work and a possibility to work from anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Switzerland and the UK (in total 90 days per year)
• International teams. Teams that go outside Pan-Baltic borders where people value challenging work together with good humor and having fun
• More vacation. Additional weeks of vacation are available to all employees who have been in the company for 1 year or more
• Volunteer time off. We care about giving back to society, therefore, you will get additional days off for volunteering purposes
• Paid leave. We are proud of our employees who are participating in military training. Therefore, Luminor offers 30 fully paid calendar days for military training every year
• Health benefits. A competitive benefits package in addition to your salary that includes health insurance after the first 3 months pass in all three Baltic states as well as Health days in case of your absence due to sickness without a doctor's note needed
• Wellbeing....