Senior Agile Coach/Scrum Master

at  Rabobank

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,115 and EUR 7,308 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month’s salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 11% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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As a Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach, you are responsible for leading at least one or two squads, facilitating their scrum events, removing impediments and coaching them to improve efficiency. You remove obstacles or guide the teams to remove obstacles themselves.
But the scrum framework is not where you stop. You also coach the Area Triangle (leadership) & team on product, technology and people (behaviour). Besides that, you help the entire Area (and other Scrum Masters in the Area) to grow and reach the next stage of their maturity. You identify trends and recurring themes and taking appropriate actions. So next to the more instrumental role (impediment remover, facilitator) the Senior Scrum Master is the change agent (coach, mentor) as well as the servant leader (focusing on team & organizational needs). The Senior Scrum Master challenges the squads in it’s behavior and improvements, with the goal of achieving results in line with the organization’s values, principles, and business objectives.
As Senior you personify Scrum and Agile, bridging the gap between conceptualizing and actioning ideas within your squads and the Area. You support the Product Owners & Solution Architects in helping them define valuable product goals in combination with effective product backlog management. In addition you are dedicated to maintain a healthy and creative team environment so teams are able to deliver valuable products.

YOU AND YOUR TALENT

We take our squads and Area to the next level and are looking for someone who can embark on this journey with us. This means you:

• intrinsically motivate your teams to embrace the Scrum framework.
• help them to take the next steps in their growth, using any relevant theories along the way.
• protect, together with the Product Owner, the Squads against unwanted interference from outside and ensure that the team can focus on creating high value increments.
• are experienced in applying the coaching stances to enable teams on process, product, people and technology.
• with your passion for Agile, your knowledge of the Scrum framework and your people knowledge, create a culture of continuous improvement.
• are an expert in facilitating and very capable of giving various creative inspiring workshops and training courses.
• and your experience is not only going to help teams flourish, you will also be the change agent which inspires the entire Area to continuously improve.
• inform and assist the Area Leadership team on Area transformation topics. Requiring you to identify recurring themes and take the lead to get things done. These topics are outside the teams you are assigned to as Scrum Master allowing you to operate on a bigger scale.

• Leads by example – with confidence, a positive attitude, patience, honesty and integrity, and a strong sense of commitment.are an inspiration to other Scrum Masters and have experience in guiding them to help them improve to the next level.

In addition, it’s important that you recognize everything in the checklist below:

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach
• At least an advanced Scrum Master certificate like PSM2 (Scrum.org) or Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (ScrumAlliance.org).
• Experience with Team Topologies will help us improve on scaling Agile in our Area.
• Experience in guiding management teams and other Scrum Masters in an Agile way of working.
• Experience in applying a DevOps way of working (culture, Test Automation, Pipelines, etc.),
• Experience in guiding and leading transformation and cultural change,
• Ability to ‘stand your ground’ in different cultural settings and have your sights set on continuously improving teams and organizations.
• Ability to set expectations and hold individuals and team members accountable to their commitments.
• Ability to ‘read the room’, to know what is possible and what is not, and to know how lead events efficiently and effectively.

• Deeply collaborative leadership style and able to inspire others.Fluent English is a must.

LET’S MEET

Are you the person we’re looking for? Are you ready to join our team as Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach and make a difference to yourself, our customers and to society? We look forward to receiving your application for this vacancy in Utrecht.

KEY ADVANTAGES TO THE ROLE

• Experience with Obeya
• You have preferably worked for a financial institution or in a financial environment
• Experience with innovation & operational teams
• Located in the Netherlands

You’ll already be aware that Rabobank 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:

• Together with the World Wildlife Fund, we’re helping to create a harmonious balance between nature and the agricultural sector in Brazil.
• We want to share our knowledge about sustainable financial solutions. For example, we offer a discount to corporate clients with a sustainable hallmark