Scrum Master

Are you as Agile as they come? Do you have a Kanban board at home and hold daily scrums with your partner, kids, or even your dog? If you believe in Agile principles during both good and challenging times, and you’re adept at inspiring others, we want to hear from you!

At Rabobank IT, within the Conversational AI department, we’re seeking an experienced Scrum Master who can guide DevOps teams, with a specialty in assisting GenAi teams, in scaled environments. As a coach, you’ll empower your team members to embrace Agile practices and reach their full potential. Your positive influence will foster a growth-oriented culture where excellence thrives.
Our organization is setup in tribes, areas and squads. You will be working in the area Conversational AI, part of tribe DCI. As a Scrum Master you will be working with two to three squads, communicating in English.

We believe that Scrum Masters can coach in their squads and area and therewith make an impact on the bigger organization. We think our group of Scrum Masters are best placed to work together to develop the area as a whole. This includes solving organisational impediments, challenging priorities & focus and facilitating in area strategy, goals & KPI setting.

Who are you: You are down to earth and dare to challenge the status quo. You help your teams to find practical solutions for their everyday challenges. You have good knowledge of different coaching and agile techniques/frameworks as well as considerable experience in agile work environments. You are experienced in IT and DevOps and can help your team find the balance between fast delivery and robust operations.

Looking at the different scrum master stances, we are primarily looking for the coach and change agent, who is capable of helping the teams to higher levels of autonomy (rather than the facilitator and teacher who is needed during the first stages of agile transition). You will also enjoy solving organisational impediments at the area level and should be able to influence all kind of stakeholders to work better together.

What we expect from you: You are familiar with IT and should be able to contribute to the IT strategy for the area. You participate in the squad triangle, on equal footing with the Product Owner and Solution Architect. You act as a change agent to enable fast delivery and reliable operations for your squads. Most importantly, you coach your squads to think ahead, act pro-actively and grow in maturity.
You coach both the teams and the individual team members. You also work closely with the group of Scrum Masters to support and develop the area as a whole. This means active engagement with the Product Owner group, Solution Architect group, IT Leads and also other areas within our Tribe.

Key responsibilities:
• Apply Scrum Framework: You’ll help software development teams apply the Scrum framework effectively.
• Timeline Management: Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups, and Refinements
• Coaching and Facilitation: Coach team members in Agile methodologies, facilitate internal communication, and promote effective collaboration.
• External Communication: Act as the point of contact for external communications (e.g., customers or stakeholders).
• Backlog Handling: Work with product owners to manage backlogs and handle new requests.
• Conflict Resolution: Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that hinder progress.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure deliverables meet quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Scrum Maturity: Guide development teams toward higher Scrum maturity.

Scrum Master.

Duur: 17-02-2025 - 31-01-2026 met optie op verlenging.

Taal: English mandatory.

Standplaats: Utrecht.

ZZP: Niet toegestaan (not allowed).

Aanbieden kan tot: 04-02-2025 16.00.

Scrum Master (medior/senior)

• Scrum Experience: You’ve worked in a Scrum Master role and are familiar with software development.
• Agile Knowledge: Excellent understanding of Scrum techniques and artifacts (e.g., definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
• Additional Frameworks: Good knowledge Scaled Agile Framework
• Effective Communication: Strong communication and servant leadership skills.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to resolve issues and conflicts.
• Organizational Skills: Outstanding organizational abilities.
• Education: Degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Certification: Scrum Master certification (PSM 1) is a must, (PSM2) is a pre.
If you’re passionate about Agile, and ready to contribute to self-organizing teams, we’d like to meet you!

Sharing would be appricatied! Paylaşırsanız sevinirim! Do you want to work for our client in The Netherlands? Hollandada ICT alaninda calismak?

Let’s meet! Are you the person we’re looking for?

If you are, we are happy to receive your application including your motivation.

Growing a better world together: You'll already be aware that our client is a financial services provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our 'Growing a better world together' mission? We do so in countless ways, such as:

• A third of all the food we purchase is thrown away. Together with Nature & Environment, we’re working to increase awareness among consumers of how to reduce food waste.
• As part of a project with Humanitas, we are helping people who are experiencing financial difficulties to get their household finances in order.
• Together with ‘Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland’ (the Dutch Council for Refugees), we are helping 1,500 refugees find a suitable job.

Interested? Do you want to become the ideal version of yourself? We would love to help you fuel and invest in your career and ambitions in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional.

Our client is a financial service provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries, you know already. Our Red Team works for all the locations of our client in all these countries.
Do you also know that we are working together on a better world? We do this in 101 ways like for example our knowledge and experience of Ethical Hacking and Red Teaming sharing with other organizations and "hackers". That belongs to us at ' growing a better world together '

Working conditions This job role is split between operational (run) and project (build) work (75%/25%). Some changes are planned outside business hours to minimize business impact. This job vacancy is for the location Utrecht (NL).

Do you want this too?

Be the best version of yourself? We are happy to help you by focussing your development and investing in an environment in which you continue to learn. We give you the space to innovate and undertake. For example, we offer you plenty of growth opportunities and help you surpass your expectations and do the right things exceptionally well, so that you can grow as a professional.

• On top of that you can also count on us (based on a 36-hour working week):
• An Employee Benefit Budget (10% of your monthly income). How you bet this budget is up to you. Consider buying extra holiday days or an additional deposit in your pension;
• Relatively high flexibility in working hours and location independent work, depending on the planning in the team;
• 100% reimbursement of commuting if you travel with ov! Anyway with car or motorbike?

Then choose a commuting fee;

• A pension scheme that you only contribute 5% to.

Let's get acquainted.
Are you him/her? The new colleague who wants to strengthen our clientas and to make the difference for yourself, our customers and society? We would like to receive your application on this vacancy.

Useful to know: Even if you do not meet the profile of 100%, but you think the role can be perfectly fulfilled, we ask you to apply, we invest in your growth and development.
Responses are handled in accordance with vacancy management.

Felix de Bruin IT Recruiter is happy to answer questions about the application process via mail or applying to the according link.

Screening is part of the application process. We test on the basis of the screening procedures that apply within our client or if new employees are sufficiently reliable to carry out work at our client.

For this vacancy, an individual assessment and a test of your skills can be part of the application process.
Everyone is different, and precisely the differences in people help us to be an even better bank. That's why we are curious about who you.