Scrum Master

At a glance

International Card Services BV (ICS) is the leading credit card specialist and largest credit card provider in the Netherlands. ICS has more than 25 years’ experience of issuing, promoting, managing, and processing Visa and MasterCard transactions. We also offer other financial services and products, such as 24/7 fraud prevention, various insurance policies and credit facilities. With an open, independent, and proactive attitude you can become the professional you want to be within ICS.
Our mission; to become the safest and most reliable payment provider in the Netherlands. We offer you an opportunity to make a real difference and to have a significant impact on the success of our mission.
ICS strives to empower you to work where, when, and how you choose – with maximum flexibility and minimum constraints – to optimize your performance and to do your best work. This is supported by a creative work environment that is designed to feed your creativity and tap into the right side of your brain. This environment evokes a lot of passion, every day you will be working with colleagues that share your positive energy and excitement. With teamwork comes team play! At ICS we are keen on building team relationships. You will have the opportunity to get to know your coworkers personally and bond with everyone on the team. Trade in your suit and tie for jeans and sneakers and join a team where you can be yourself.

Your job

As a Scrum Master your main goal is to make sure the team can perform on its best, and keeps improving in its agile transformation.

You:
• Assist teams in their continuous improvement journey and adoption of the Agile framework.
• Coach teams to deliver their products -mostly designs and architectures- and solving impediments.
• Always pursue a safe working environment for collaboration and continuous improvement
• Coach both teams as individuals. You also guide the agile events (both scrum as non-scrum)
• Prefer trust over control to deliver added value. You are not the operational facilitator.
• Are being thé Agile ambassador. Both to the teams as to our surrounding organization.
• Help the team integrate (from two to one team)?

Working environment

We’ve just moved to our new office in Diemen. We wanted our space to be specifically designed for sustainability, flexibility, and productivity. It includes collaborative break-out spaces, brainstorm spaces, a townhall and private office areas. Other than that, we also have a football table and chill places too hang out. This office finds a happy medium between work and play!
The IT department is responsible for the design, realization and maintaining of our systems for our clients, co-branders as well as ICS-ers. We are striving for sustainable solutions, driven by data, and enabled by the technology. The IT Department set-up is based on a distinction between Value Creation, Enabling and Control & Oversights. The domain services department is part of the Value Creation area.

Your profile

Our ideal candidate is proactive, loves working with teams and is able to listen to the ideas and concerns of her or his peers in order to be an effective team member. She or he is eager to learn about new developments within the world of data, technology and HR. Explaining, mentoring and helping out others is what gives energy. English is the standard communication language.

• You have at minimum a Bachelor’s Degree in IT or a related field.
• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience and you have participated in an agile environment, using the scrum principles
• You have experience working in a DevOps team and with business stakeholders

We also like you to:
• Help (and be helped by) others in your team to become better engineers
• Together with the IT lead driving the team to maximal results
• Take ownership and focus
• Enjoy working in a multicultural environment

We are offering

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass or travel budget, depending on the function
• A solid pension plan

Interested?

Are you triggered by this description? If you have questions contact Paul van Manen Paul.vanManen@icscards.nl / Coenraad ter Welle Coenraad.terWelle@icscards.nl or apply to this vacancy.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. In addition, a recruitment agency can only submit a resume when invited by a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the search for a right candidate. All unsolicited resumes sent to us will be considered property of ABN AMRO BANK N.V. In this case, ABN AMRO will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.