- Company Name
- EPEX SPOT
- Job Title
- Scrum Master/ IT Infrastructure Project manager
- Job Description
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Join the EPEX SPOT Team: Innovate, Collaborate, Thrive
Job Summary: As a Scrum Master/ IT infrastructure Project Manager, you play a crucial role by ensuring the team follows Agile practices, remove obstacles, and foster collaboration. You act as a coach, guiding the team towards continuous improvement and helping them meet their sprint goals effectively
Key Responsibilities:
1. Collaborate efficiently with Product Owners, Architects, and Project teams:
- Conduct sprint ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Facilitate discussions between technical team members and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment.
- Ensure coordination and good communication with other Product Owners and Scrum Masters
- Encourage collective intelligence, individual initiative and knowledge sharing to develop both individual and collective skills
2. Help the scrum team deliver on time and with high quality standard
- Identify and mitigate technical risks that may impede the progress of a sprint, especially those related to security, scalability, or dependencies
- Listen carefully to team members’ concerns, feedback, and ideas to make sure needs are met and issues properly solved.
- Together with the product owner, build the roadmap, manage the product backlog and monitor progress
3. Coach the teams in the Scrum adoption
- Provide guidance, lead and train colleagues through the scrum framework
- Facilitate retrospectives to continually improve
Key Requirements:
Hard Skills:
- Good knowledge of tools like Jira Software Management, Confluence, Mural to manage sprint backlogs, track progress, and facilitate team responsiveness.
- At ease with DevOps practices, using CI/CD tools like GitLab, and automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling.
- Experience with cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, understanding of key concepts like networking, security, and cloud-native services relevant to building cloud landing zones.
- Knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as a Code) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure ARM templates, enabling the automation and management of infrastructure deployments in cloud environments.
Soft Skills:
- Effective Communication with team members and various stakeholders to foster an open and constructive dialogue.
- Teamwork and Collaboration to maintain a trustful collaboration, recognize and manage emotions and solve potential conflicts
- Innovative mindset to think critically, analyze situations, and find creative solutions
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science, or equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years of working experience as a Scrum Master or a Tech lead with excellent practical knowledge of scrum
- Proven experience of Agile and DevOps methodologies
Language Skills:
- Fluent in English
- French or Dutch would be a plus
Who Are We?
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE operates physical short-term electricity markets in 13 countries: Central Western Europe, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Nordics, and Poland. The heart of our business is to bring together electricity supply and demand across Europe. EPEX SPOT plays a pivotal role in the energy sector. We help ensure that the market price of electricity remains accurate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by offering our members the right products for power trading. Striving for a well-functioning Internal Energy Market, EPEX SPOT shares its expertise with partners across the European continent and beyond. 406 companies have traded 717.8 TWh (over 30 b€ worth) of electricity on EPEX in 2023.
EPEX SPOT is a dynamic and fast-paced company that operates in a constantly moving landscape of the energy transition and the FinTech industries. We shape the future of the European power market by supporting decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation. Innovation is our tool to contribute, every day, to a more sustainable society and to facilitate the energy transition.
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 corner stone of our way of working, reflected in how we face challenges and work together as unique individuals to build a stronger organization.
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.
Why join EPEX SPOT?
At EPEX SPOT, you will be part of a passionate, talented, and international team dedicated to shaping the future of the European power market. Our offices and inclusive workplaces throughout Europe celebrate diversity and support our employees to unfold their full potential. We are proud of our commitment to gender equality, demonstrated by our strong performance in the Gender Equality Index. Our HR strategy focuses on our People and Organization, enhancing both motivation and employability, while equally developing individuals’ skills.
Join us at EPEX SPOT and become part of a forward-thinking company where your contributions will make a significant impact, for the energy transition as well as for your career! Discover more about us and explore career opportunities at https://www.epexspot.com/en
Benefits of working with Us:
• Hybrid Working Conditions: We offer you the flexibility of working from home or other EPEX locations for the best possible work life balance. You can work up to 40 days per year from select countries in Europe.
• Training Opportunities: We invest in your continuous development with a dedicated annual training budget to enhance your skills through various upskilling programs 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.
