The Role: Scrum Master

The Team: The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Capital Markets Technology professionals, who build, support and protect the applications that operate our network.  The technology landscape includes high-performance, high-volume applications as well as compute intensive applications, leveraging contemporary microservices, cloud-based architectures.

The Impact: Together, we build, support, protect and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets.

What’s in it for you: We are looking for highly motivated technology professionals who will strengthen our specialisms, and champion our uniqueness to create a company that is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive to all. 

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a team based out of Gurgaon and to work with colleagues across multiple regions globally.

Responsibilities: 

•    As a Scrum Master, you will work within cross-functional, globally distributed team to lead the planning, estimation, and delivery of client projects and programs.
facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
•    Coach and mentor teams on Agile principles, ensuring adherence to Scrum and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
•    Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and QA teams to ensure user stories and tasks are clearly defined, estimated, and prioritized.
•    Identify and resolve blockers or impediments that may hinder team progress.
•    Track and communicate team performance metrics such as velocity, sprint progress, and burn-down charts.
•    Organize and lead ongoing team planning sessions to identify key risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams 
•    Coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, self-organization etc.
•    Work with the scrum team to translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning

What We’re Looking For: 

•    6+ years of Experience working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum, Kanban and hybrid systems
•    Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organization to achieve broader insights into managing work streams and outcomes
•    Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to required results
•    Proficient with collaboration tools including Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and Microsoft/ Google Office applications
•    Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow
•    Excellent communication skills
•    Certification equivalent to Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PSM 1 are must
•    Should be willing to work in Hybrid mode (2-3 days from Office)

The Location: Gurgaon, India

About Company Statement: 

OSTTRA is a market leader in derivatives post-trade processing, bringing innovation, expertise, processes and networks together to solve the post-trade challenges of global financial markets.  OSTTRA operates cross-asset post-trade processing networks, providing a proven suite of Credit Risk, Trade Workflow and Optimisation services. Together these solutions streamline post-trade workflows, enabling firms to connect to counterparties and utilities, manage credit risk, reduce operational risk and optimise processing to drive post-trade efficiencies.  

 
OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years:  MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset.  These businesses have an exemplary track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure and bring together an established community of market participants comprising all trading relationships and paradigms, connected using powerful integration and transformation capabilities.