Scrum Master

The job in a nutshell

Act as a servant leader to coach team members to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective and agreed upon Agile practices. Strive to remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate to meet delivery goals.

Responsibilities:

• Serve and support the Product Owner and Development team to do everything possible to delight the customer.
• Build a high-performing team by applying a servant leadership style, and leading by example.
• Guide and coach the team on how to get the most out of self-organization and how to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments which may involve working with other teams, experts or leaders.
• Build a trusting and safe environment, where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work by communicating effectively with key stakeholders, including management.
• Facilitate planning discussion, work estimation, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Coordinate with other teams, and via Scrum of Scrums, to pass information bi-directionally, facilitating inter-team dialog opportunities to remove impediments.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiate information.
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog in support of sprint planning.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field, or equivalent education/experience.
• Demonstrated servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of patterns and techniques, including Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
• Knowledge and facility with Agile tools, such as JIRA, which are used to capture user stories and track team progress.
• Knowledge and developing awareness of applying game-oriented facilitation techniques and tools.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Ability to use and present data to tell a story to the team and leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• First level Scrum Master Certification (PSM I, CSM, SAFe Scrum Master)
• Experience in a Scrum Master role.
• Experience serving on multiple Scrum teams, in a variety of contexts (e.g. team size, organization type, culture, co-located vs.
• distributed).
• Record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• Knowledge of approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Agile techniques, including User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous
• Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Experience as a collaborative leader.

Aegon Asset Management

Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) is a leading global investor. Our 385 investment professionals manage and advise on assets of US $337 billion for a global client base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations.

We organize our firm around four investment platforms: fixed income, real assets, equities and multi-asset & solutions, which includes a fiduciary and multi-manager business. Each investment platform has dedicated teams with deep asset-class expertise, organized globally and committed to maximizing client benefit from their specialist areas.

We are an international business: Our 1,160 employees work from 13 locations across Europe, the Americas and Asia. We share a common belief in fundamental, research-driven active management, underpinned by effective risk management and a commitment to responsible investment.

What will you be getting?

• Compensation level depend upon an applicant’s qualifications and will be determined by hiring supervisors/managers and HR;
• Plenty of scope and budget for your personal and professional development;
• A good pension scheme.
• By Q2 2025 Aegon will move to our new office at Schiphol WTC.

Interested? Apply!
Are you interested in joining our Team? We look forward to receiving your resume and motivation letter. Then make sure you apply immediately! Do you have some more questions? Send an email to Talent Acquisition via [email protected].

Diversity & Inclusion

At Aegon Asset Management, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We are more than a global Asset Management firm – we are a people business, and we recognize that delivering excellent client outcomes comes from harnessing diverse perspectives. We value diversity in the full range of human uniqueness without limitation including race, gender, ability, language, culture, beliefs, age, origin, background, perspectives and experiences.

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Aegon Asset Management aims to be an employer of choice in the financial services industry. As a global company, we offer excellent terms of employment, a very diverse and inspiring work environment, and development opportunities.