Head of Scrum Management

THE ROLE

We are looking for a skilled Head of Scrum Management to support Agile teams within our Agile Release Trains (ARTs), ensuring they work efficiently, deliver value, and adhere to SAFe principles. You will play a key role in enabling high performance, removing delivery barriers, and promoting a culture of learning and improvement.

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives) within the context of SAFe.
• Support Agile Release Train events, such as PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Act as a servant leader, removing impediments and enabling teams to focus on delivering value for our composable banking platform.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure a well‑defined and prioritised backlog aligned with business objectives.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile and SAFe best practices to improve maturity and delivery effectiveness.
• Foster strong communication, collaboration, and alignment between teams, Product Management, and other ART roles.
• Promote transparency through reporting, metrics, and visual management tools.

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a SAFe or large‑scale Agile environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum and Kanban, with hands‑on SAFe delivery experience.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and servant leadership skills.
• Ability to manage dependencies and risks across multiple teams.
• Proficiency with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or equivalent.
• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification highly desirable.

• Care about best practices in AGILE SAFe.
• Commit to the success of the Temenos ART's.
• Collaborate effectively with a global team to deliver for our clients.
• Challenge siloed thinking.

• Maternity leave :
  Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month
• Civil Partnership : 1 week of paid leave if you're getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex / civil partnership
• Family care : 4 weeks of paid family care leave
• Recharge days : 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally needed to recharge
• Study leave : 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development