Scrum Master
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At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs:
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interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
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Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
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Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
The Technology function is responsible for activities related to the strategic direction and control of all information systems and technology capabilities, both internally and externally. This includes system design and programming, network planning, budget planning, database management, and computer operations.
About the Role
In this pivotal role, you'll drive agile delivery, foster a collaborative environment, and ensure our squads in our Corporate area of the technology function (HR, Risk, and Finance) deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs and align with our tribe's objectives.
You'll support and coach squad members, promote a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, and manage relationships with stakeholders.
If you have a passion for agile methodologies, strong facilitation and coaching skills, and a commitment to fostering a collaborative and fun workplace, we encourage you to apply and be part of our innovative journey.
Key Responsibilities
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Facilitate the successful adoption and application of Scrum within squads, promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
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Ensure that the squad is empowered, interlocks are managed, obstacles are removed, and agile practices are followed.
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Work across squads and with the wider business, third parties, and colleagues to deliver change.
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Define and manage sprint processes, arrange and run planning meetings, and ensure alignment with broader or cross-squad priorities.
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Coach and develop wider understanding and adoption of agile methodologies and work with project managers to create a project delivery framework which works with agile practices
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Manage and report work items coherently, evidence key controls, and track value.
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Maintain azure dev/ops to ensure that quality and consistency of content is maintained
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
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A proven track record of managing complex delivery through agile practices and frameworks, and a solid understanding of agile management tools.
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Have experience moving businesses through the agile adoption process
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Possess strong leadership and team management skills.
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Are adept at stakeholder management and communication.
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Demonstrate a flexible, pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
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Are committed to continuous improvement and innovation.
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Are familiar with working in regulated environments.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we've adopted a blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we'll be happy to help.
We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
Product Owner
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This role is for 12-month maternity cover
About Smart Data Foundry
Smart Data Foundry has a purpose to unlock the power of financial data as a force to improve people’s lives.
What we do
We enable the research ecosystem to flourish through the provision of research ready real financial data.
We create data-driven insights based on real financial data, that identify areas to inform policy change and enhance regulation.
Role Purpose
This role is for 12-month maternity cover
The Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritising the product backlog for the Smart Data Foundry (SDF) product portfolio, ensuring that SDF delivery teams deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs and align with business goals. The role works reports into the Product Manager and works closely with Delivery Manager, Data Science Team and Platform (engineering) Team, as well as wider stakeholders across SDF to build on the product strategy and requirements to create detailed user stories and ensure that the product vision is realised.
Key Responsibilities
- User Stories and Acceptance Criteria: Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the delivery teams in delivering valuable features.
- Backlog Management: Create, prioritise, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it reflects the needs and priorities of all stakeholders.
- Product Delivery: Work closely with delivery teams to answer questions, provide clarifications, and make decisions to keep the delivery process moving forward.
- Release Management: Coordinate product releases, ensuring that all aspects of the product are ready for launch and meet expected quality standards.
About you
- Excellent people, customer, and communication skills.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and flexible.
- Must be entrepreneurial, a problem-solver, and a creative thinker.
- Strong understanding of how to develop an insight led strategy
Knowledge and Experience
- Min 5 years’ experience working in a fast-paced change environment.
- Experience in planning and facilitating workshops with stakeholders and running collaborative design activities.
Skills
- User focus - You understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can gain insights from data and user research and use those insights and findings to make informed decisions. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can put users first and manage competing priorities between the user and business needs.
- User-centred content design - You can show a deep understanding of end-to-end journeys and how content is affected within these journeys. You can identify where journey fixes or content improvements need to be made.
- Agile working - You can demonstrate knowledge of Agile methodology. You can apply an Agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
- Stakeholder relationship management - You can identify, analyse, manage, and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders. You can communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts, while focusing on user needs.
- Strategic thinking - You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events, and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact. You can effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities.
Staff Technical Product Owner
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The Staff Technical Product Owner is an integral member of the product engineering team. This role uses domain and business process expertise to elaborate and convey detailed product requirements in the form of epics and user stories, together with supporting artifacts (such as business process maps and use cases) to the software development teams.
**Job Description**
**Roles and Responsibilities**
In this role, the Staff Technical Product Owner will ensure that requirements for the near-term upcoming development are sufficiently elaborated, such that the delivery team is enabled to estimate, plan and commit to delivery with high confidence. In addition, the role requires leadership, coaching, mentoring and working in direct collaboration with other global BA teams for an efficient and consistent process resulting in quality deliverables from the engineering team.
+ Drives process definitions and improvements for agile development.
+ Captures the voice of the customer to drive business process definitions and product needs.
+ Work directly with engineering lead to manage the business analysis activities to meet engineering and product goals.
+ Develop positive working relationships with external customers and users.
+ Work directly with Product Managers and / or customers to define scope and value for new developments.
+ Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to prioritize scope for releases and groom the Product backlog.
+ Responsible for ensuring that non-functional requirements exist and are prioritized alongside the functions in the Product and Release Backlogs.
+ Facilitate the breakdown of the Epic User Stories into "Sprint Sized" User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the development team.
+ Ensure that the features in the User Stories / requirements are expressed in a way that all members of the team, and stakeholders, clearly understand the requirements and how they fit into the product backlog.
+ Collaborate closely with UX to ensure requirements, scenarios, business process maps and other artifacts align with User Experience designs.
+ Define requirement acceptance criteria with input from customers, product managers, and the engineering team. Generate and execute the required functional test cases.
+ Validates that test scenarios meet the feature acceptance criteria and customer expectations.
+ Responsible for the maintenance and quality of the documented user stories/requirements in the defined requirements management tool.
+ Throughout the development cycle, remain focused on the software being produced and whether it meets the requirements. Proactively provide relevant feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
+ Develop and be prepared to execute effective demonstrations of the product, to internal and external stakeholders.
+ Maintain leading edge understanding of technologies and industry trends relevant to the application via training, webinars, on-line journals, Trade Shows and User Groups.
+ Lead other business analysts, agree, and monitor objectives and undertake regular feedback.
**Education Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related major, and a minimum of 5 years of experience.
**Desired Characteristics:**
+ Relevant electrical utility industry knowledge or expertise
+ An understanding of best practice business analysis methods and tools
+ Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum)
+ Results driven person with strong interpersonal skills.
+ Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
+ Able to energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people, encouraging input from all members of the team.
+ Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility.
+ Willingness to travel both regionally and internationally.
**Business Acumen:**
+ Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
+ Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
+ Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
+ Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
**Leadership:**
+ Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
+ Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.
+ Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
+ Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
**Personal Attributes:**
+ Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
+ Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
+ Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
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**Additional Information**
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** No
GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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