Scrum Master - Institutional Wealth Management Services Trading Solutions

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

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.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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Category:Product Management

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.