Scrum Master (trading systems)

Job Summary: The Scrum Master plays a critical role in maximizing delivery performance and team effectiveness within the M7 Trading product team, in a business and product-oriented organization.

More than a facilitator of Scrum ceremonies - in a context of outsourced engineering delivery, where product ownership and quality remain in-house while an affiliated group entity delivers engineering - this role focuses on optimizing delivery flow, strengthening team autonomy, and enabling predictable outcomes in a mission-critical trading environment.

You will act as a system-level enabler, supporting the team and the wider organization to remove constraints, improve collaboration, and continuously enhance delivery performance - while maintaining a clear boundary from product decision-making.

Key Focus Areas :

• Delivery performance & predictability: Drive improvements in flow metrics (lead time, throughput, predictability) and help the team deliver consistently in a high-stakes environment
• Team autonomy & accountability: Strengthen team ownership, maturity, decision-making, and accountability for outcomes
• System-wide optimization: Identify and remove bottlenecks across teams, dependencies, and organisational boundaries
• Outsourced delivery model: Navigate and optimise collaboration challenges specific to an internal/outsourced organisational setup – within the company’s group.
• Continuous improvement at scale: Enable data-driven improvement in a multi-product, highly interdependent environment
• Serves the team, Product Owner, and organisation as a delivery and flow enabler
• Does not own product decisions, but ensures the conditions for effective product delivery
• Operates at both team level and system level
• Operates within a cross-company delivery model – our provider being part of the company’s group - acting as a bridge between product needs, an outsourced development organisation and customer acceptance
• Includes delivery coordination, stakeholder alignment, and dependency management across organisational boundaries

Scope:

M7 - Intraday Continuous Market Trading System

A low-latency, high-performance trading platform, operating as one of the largest market systems, with Core Platform Coverage:

• 24/7 mission-critical operations
• Continuous trading algorithms and matching engine
• End-to-end trading workflows (API and UI)
• Strict reliability and availability requirements
• High constraints on latency, throughput, and scalability
• Strong regulatory and market-driven constraints

Team composition and governance

• Business and product-oriented governance (Business segment working with products)
• Core team composed of analysts (Business, Quality etc.) while the engineering team is outsourced to a partner.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Optimize Delivery Flow & Team Performance: From ceremony to delivery outcomes

Drive improvements in release management:

• Lead time
• Throughput
• Sprint predictability

Identify and challenge:

• Bottlenecks
• Overcommitment patterns

2. Strengthen Partnership with Service Provider

Drive improvements on :

• Delivery reliability from the service provider in partnership.
• Quality and predictability of external contributions
• Transparency on progress and commitments
• Manage the specific dynamics of a cross-company delivery model:
• Work directly with provider’s functional analysts (not developers) and Product owner to align on requirements and priorities.
• Develop a relationship with the provider’s scrum-master
• Coordinate the reception, testing, and acceptance of provider’s deliveries into our environment
• Support the effort to increase release cadence and reduce time to market
• Identify and address collaboration gaps, unclear ownership, inefficient handovers, and misalignments between internal teams and provider

Promote:

• A one-team mindset across internal and external contributors
• Clear roles, responsibilities, and ways of working
• Continuous feedback loops to improve collaboration and performance
• Proactively identify dependencies across different products and teams
• Facilitate alignment between teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders
• Contribute to cross-team synchronization (Scrum of Scrums, etc.)

4. Support Product-Oriented Delivery

Collaborate closely with Product Owners to:

• Ensure backlog clarity
• Maintain focus on business value
• When needed, represent PO / Product Team in meetings related to Projects, initiatives, or issue resolution

Develop a strong understanding of product challenges:

• Release management
• Trading system and API trading.
• Low latency architectural requirements

5. Remove Organizational Impediments

Go beyond team-level blockers:

• Address cross-team issues
• Slow decision processes
• Misaligned priorities

Define and track KPIs:

• Delivery predictability
• Cycle time
• Deployment frequency

Use retrospectives as performance improvement tools

Use metrics as success indicators:

• Sprint predictability ≥ target defined with PO
• Lead time reduction
• Reduced cross-team blockers
• Increased deployment frequency
• Improved team autonomy (qualitative + measurable)
• Manage project-type initiatives involving multiple stakeholders (Market Ops, Sales, Technical Key Account Managers, provider) beyond single-team Scrum delivery
• Coordinate M7 impact assessments for new EPEX initiatives

Soft skills and qualifications

Expected mindset:

• Broader thinker (team /product line /organisation)
• Outcome-driven (not ceremony-driven)
• Proactive (manages risks, anticipates issues, doesn’t just react)
• Comfortable with complexity (multi-product / dependencies)
• Curiosity and motivation to engage with product challenges and agility at scale
• Comfortable operating in a business-oriented, multi-stakeholder environment, balancing delivery coordination, stakeholder alignment, and change enablement
• Skilled at managing outsourced delivery relationships without direct authority over the external

We expect our Scrum Masters to act as flow leaders, not just facilitators

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent: Strong knowledge and multiple years of hands‑on experience with Scrum Master role and Agile practices.
• Agile Tools Proficiency: Competence in Agile backlog management tools such as Jira and Confluence, and remote collaboration tools like; Miro and Teams
• Clear Communication: Effectively articulate complex ideas and technical information to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Active Listening: Practice active listening to fully understand the needs and concerns of the team and stakeholders.
• Conflict Resolution: Skilled in mediating conflicts and driving consensus.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification required. Additional certifications in Agile coaching, SAFe, DevOps, Lean, or Project Management would be considered an asset.
• Proven track record of improving delivery predictability, optimizing team performance, and facilitating collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Who Are We?

The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE operates physical short-term electricity markets in Central Western Europe, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Nordics and in Poland. Furthermore, EPEX SPOT newly offers local flexibility markets solution and Guarantees of Origin auctions, to foster the integration of renewable energy sources and to enhance the engagement of consumers and producers in the power market. The heart of our business is to bring together electricity supply and demand across Europe. We shape the future of the European power market by supporting decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation and contributing to the global energy transition toward a sustainable future.

At EPEX SPOT, we believe in fostering a vibrant and inclusive culture where every team member can thrive. Our core values— trustful teams, innovation & agility, and customer centricity— are the foundation of everything we do. Diversity is the cornerstone of our way of working, reflected in how we face challenges and work together as unique individuals to build a stronger organisation.

Our DNA is embedded in continuous improvement via constructive feedback, collaboration among colleagues and transparency culture. We believe in true leadership, supporting our vision towards the energy transition, as well as the development of our People.

We offer a decentralised working system with an appealing Home Office and Hybrid Working setup, serving individuals’ self-determination of working conditions.

We are proud of our commitment to gender equality, demonstrated by our strong performance in the gender‑equality-index-at-epex‑spot.

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Benefits of working with Us:

• Hybrid Working Conditions: We offer you the flexibility of working from home or other locations for the best possible work-life balance.
• Training Opportunities: We invest in your continuous development with a dedicated annual training budget to enhance your skills through various upskilling programmes and initiatives.
• Career Path: We support your career aspirations with clear pathways for advancement within the company and the EEX Group.
• Internal Mobility: We offer and support the possibility to explore new roles within the company to expand your skills and experience.
• Leadership Journey: We promote a culture of recognition and reward with the EPEX SPOT leadership journey that encourages everyone’s progression and development.