Analytics Scrum Master - Assistant Director

Location: Wrocław - 2 days office/3 days remote

Analytics Scrum Master - Assistant Director

Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.

The opportunity  

Global Analytics is a progressive, forward-thinking, cross-functional team of approximately 25 individuals, positioned at the intersection of key decision-making processes and diverse insight use cases across the firm. Our culture is built on openness and collaboration, fostering an environment where every team member is empowered to reach their full potential and contribute to meaningful outcomes.

You will be the scrum master for the overall team, instilling and optimizing AGILE best practices, ceremonies, enabling optimal sprint management through technology and training, and continuously working across the whole team (and potentially other teams within the wider Reporting and Data Analytics function) to identify and resolve blockers and opportunities for efficiency.

You will work alongside Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Product Owners, and Translators to ensure the team is enabled to the greatest possible extent to meet its objectives

Your key responsibilities

You will support and collaborate closely with the Global Analytics leadership and team members to ensure our sprint planning, workflow tracking, user story best practices and communication across the team is best in class in order for the team to deliver strategic impact globally

This will involve key responsibilities such as:

• Delivering training and support to help team members follow and get the most from AGILE practices
• Develop and maintain workflow tracking reports that provide insights into the effectiveness of our planning, estimated vs actual efforts, velocity of delivered tickets and where attention is needed within the team
• Guide, consolidate and work with team member to ensure long term planning documentation is aligned with current realities and goals and build this into a presentable formal visible for the team
• Setup and manage daily stand ups, planning sessions and sprint ceremonies, proactively identifying blockers and supporting to take action to make sure relevant team members / leaders are informed and any other action needed to help unblock issues for the team
• Make you have the holistic visibility you have across the whole team each day to act as a connecter to help solve day to day issues sooner and more effectively
• Maintain and report against long term roadmaps for each of the key projects within the team

You will coach junior colleagues to enable them to develop their skills and capabilities. This may include managing of workload, quality assessment and evaluation, skill transfer and supervision, deliverable expectations and timeframes across multiple projects.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A strong track record of owning, leading or managing complex projects or deliverables
• Experience in identifying and proactively acting on opportunities for improvement
• A structured and organized way of working with the ability to set and get a team to work within a defined framework
• An expert level of expertise and experience with AGILE workflow practices including scrum or kanban
• Experience using project management software such as Azure Devops, JIRA, or similar to a best in class level to manage an overall teams deliverables
• Strong leadership skills with the ability and confidence to have difficult conversations where necessary with both team members and senior leaders within the team, whilst also maintaining good rapport across teams and acting as a connecter where appropriate

Ideally, you’ll also have some of the following:

• Some knowledge or experience of concepts and methodologies from the data, reporting, analytics or data engineering domains
• Experience of change management (i.e., such as proactively introducing/migrating to new technologies to teams)

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations –  Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

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Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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