Transformation Scrum Master / Agile Lead – Finance Platform
About The Position
Senior consulting engagement supporting the continuous improvement and agile transformation of a large, business-critical finance platform organisation serving a large internal user base across several entities of an international group. The assignment combines organisational transformation, agile coaching, mentoring, and hands-on Scrum Master support to improve delivery effectiveness, team collaboration, stakeholder alignment, transparency, predictability, and agile ways of working. The consultant will work across multiple teams, stakeholders, and organisational dependencies with Product Owners, Solution Managers, Scrum Masters, development teams, management, and leadership. A key objective is to develop and mentor internal Scrum Masters and strengthen long-term agile capability in-house. Deliverables include an assessment of agile maturity and improvement opportunities, a prioritised transformation roadmap, a coaching and development plan for internal Scrum Masters, improved delivery and collaboration practices, facilitated workshops and continuous-improvement initiatives, recommendations for sustainable agile governance and team operating models, and knowledge transfer. The engagement is scheduled to start on 1 November 2026 and run for seven months, with a possible extension. Workload is 160 hours per month. The description gives Vienna, Austria, as the location and specifies a hybrid arrangement with one on-site day per month; it also states at the end that this is a remote position. English is the working language, and one consultant is sought. Methods include Scrum, Agile software development, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, change-management processes, performance systems analysis, and agile operating-model design. The platform and tooling context includes SAP applications, Planview LeanKit, and PSOS; awareness of communications security requirements is expected.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Agile Transformation Lead.
- Proven experience leading agile transformation in complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated, measurable improvements in delivery or team performance.
- Strong coaching, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience developing Scrum Masters and agile practitioners.
- Fluent English.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in banking, finance, or other regulated industries.
- Experience in large SAP-based environments.
- Scrum or Agile certifications such as PSM, CSM, PSPO, SAFe, ICAgile, or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Assess current ways of working and agile maturity, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Drive agile transformation initiatives across the organisation.
- Coach Product Owners, Solution Managers, Scrum Masters, development teams, stakeholders, management, and leadership.
- Mentor internal Scrum Masters in coaching, facilitation, and servant leadership.
- Support Scrum events and help remove impediments.
- Improve backlog management, prioritisation, planning, and stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitate workshops, retrospectives, alignment sessions, and continuous-improvement activities.
- Identify dependencies, bottlenecks, and organisational impediments.
- Promote agile principles and support organisational change and agile adoption.
- Develop a transformation roadmap with prioritised recommendations and a coaching and development plan for internal Scrum Masters.
- Recommend sustainable agile governance and team operating models, and support knowledge transfer and capability building.
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