Job Description:

The Role

As a Scrum Master you blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring and coaching, and constant improvement. As part of a highly collaborative squad you will advise, mentor, coach and train on performance, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery. In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments and facilitate meetings such as the daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives. You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling events and activities as you manage interdependencies across squads and product areas. You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to deliver at optimal efficiency. 

Working collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints

Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources

Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners

Managing, coordinating logistics for and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrum masters)

Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, Miro, MS Teams)

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Bachelor’s Degree or Comparable Experience

Certified Scrum Master

Substantial technical background strongly preferred

Jira experience

Experience working as a scrum team member preferred

At least 2+ years’ experience as Scrum Master

Financial services experience preferred

Excellent communication and people-interaction skills and ability to rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization

Demonstrate a continuous improvement approach

Proven change agent capable of coaching teams and individuals from across different functions, experiences and locations as they work through new and unfamiliar situations.

Effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerate customer delivery

Intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching

The Team

You will support one or more cross-functional squads, engaging with all team members and the Squad Leader. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity leadership behaviors, you will evolve and sustain an innovative culture.

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