About the role
In this pivotal role, you'll be the driving force behind our team's delivery success during a significant transformation period. You'll implement pragmatic agile practices, create clarity in priorities, and ensure the team can focus on what matters most while balancing operational demands with strategic improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Establish effective delivery rhythm by implementing lightweight Scrum practices focused on outcomes rather than ceremony, creating a sustainable and productive cadence for the team
Drive execution excellence** **by reducing context switching, removing blockers, and helping the team complete one work package at a time before moving to the next
Enhance prioritization by supporting the team lead in balancing capacity against demand, confidently saying "no/not now" when necessary to protect team focus
Create transparency** **through breaking down complex deliverables into manageable chunks with clear acceptance criteria and providing stakeholders with regular, honest status updates
Support audit compliance** **by translating findings into structured action plans with clear ownership, sequencing, and measurable outcomes
Foster continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives that lead to meaningful team and process enhancements
About the team
Our Logging & Monitoring squad develops and operates state-of-the-art logging, monitoring and event management platforms to collect application behaviour information, detect/limit service disruption and provide the associated reporting capabilities. Our ambition is to help empower developers, application and platform owners identify any growing risks, have a clear understanding of their SLAs, reduce the mean time to resolution and be ahead of the curve with regards to long term trends.
About you
We are happy to meet you if you possess:
You're a delivery-focused professional who thrives in dynamic environments and brings calm to complexity. You understand technical concepts well enough to facilitate meaningful discussions between engineers and stakeholders. Above all, you're pragmatic-focused on helping the team deliver value rather than following processes for their own sake.
Substantial experience (typically 5+ years) as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead within software or platform engineering teams
Strong technical background with hands-on software development experience or deep understanding of software development lifecycles and technical delivery processes
Proven track record of successfully operating in high-demand environments that balance operational maintenance, feature delivery, and improvement initiatives
Exceptional facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to constructively challenge priorities when necessary
Pragmatic, outcomes-oriented approach that prioritizes delivery results over process rigidity
These are additional nice to haves:
Familiarity with observability platforms and tooling such as Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
Experience supporting teams through audit, risk assessment, or control remediation processes
Knowledge of DevOps practices and how they integrate with agile delivery methods
Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
Background in incident management or service reliability practices
For Slovakia, the monthly base salary range for this position is between EUR 3,300 and EUR 5,400 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
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the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
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the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.
Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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