Scrum Master

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring successful sprint execution and delivery.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions.
• Coach and mentor teams on Agile principles, Scrum framework, and best practices to improve team maturity and productivity.
• Identify, manage, and remove impediments to ensure the team can deliver sprint commitments effectively.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, QA Engineers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and project goals.
• Track sprint progress, team velocity, burndown metrics, and delivery status using Agile reporting tools.
• Promote continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and implementing actionable process enhancements.
• Coordinate cross‑team dependencies and support release planning activities.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise Agile standards, governance, and delivery practices.
• Foster a collaborative, transparent, and high‑performing Agile team culture.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 10+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.
• Strong experience supporting Wealth Management, Banking, or Financial Services technology projects.
• Hands‑on experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, or similar platforms.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and conflict‑resolution skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate across distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile metrics, sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning.