Agile Scrum Master/Product Owner

Job Description:

Job Title Agile Scrum Master/Product Owner

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

The Employee Compliance Technology Programme is responsible for re-platforming legacy Compliance applications onto modern, scalable, cloud-ready technology.  The new GECCo platform (Global Employee Compliance Collective) will centralise all employee compliance tasks in Deutsche Bank, moving employees and Compliance to a self-service model, eliminating manual intervention, and improving data quality by ensuring it is consumed strategically from authoritative sources.

As an Agile scrum Master/ Product Owner within Employee Compliance Technology, you will take responsibility for maximizing the value of for one or more GECCo products delivered with their multidisciplinary agile team.  You will contribute to the Product Vision and Roadmap, manage team backlogs, and liaise with our business and technology stakeholders to further develop and enhance the product, ensuring it is consistent with strategy. 

The Product Owner aligns scope and priorities to relevant strategic goals and requirements of customers, users, stakeholders and their team. In defining priorities, they use a combination of value, delivery effort and dependency information, ensuring value is delivered as early as possible and maximised overall.

As a servant-leader, they enable their agile team to work in a self-directed way with team members supported in applying their skills to innovate and deliver the agreed product outcomes.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect: 

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Define and prioritize development of the product in collaboration with all stakeholders and keeping them informed of status
• Work with the teams in building and owning a product structure of epics, features and stories
• Adjust features and priorities dynamically based on user feedback and realignment of business demands, accepting or rejecting features as delivered by development
• Demonstrate functionality to stakeholders gather feedback
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and product adoption by business
• Contribute and help teams meet standards, engineering best practices and quality standards.

Your skills and experience

• Hands-on experience in Product Ownership, structured business analysis methods, data extraction, data processing and tools within Compliance /Financial Services
• Ability to think strategically and anticipate user needs on a long-term basis in order to build a continuous vision for the product, gaining a complete understanding of how the product fits into the strategic architecture of the organization
• Ability to communicate information effectively with people from varying backgrounds including technical teams, users and business stakeholders, building trust and collaboration so that everyone can make decisions together as a group.
• Expertise in drawing business process workflows, requirements backlog preparation and ability to break down large complex processes into small tangible product output for incremental business value delivery

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named a The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.