About The Job
The Technical Scrum Lead partners with technology and product teams to drive Agile delivery, improve execution, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role focuses on facilitating Agile ceremonies, enabling high‑performing teams, and coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders in a fast‑paced technology environment.
This is a delivery and facilitation role and is ideal for an experienced Scrum Lead who can confidently guide teams, remove obstacles, and adapt Agile practices to meet business needs.
Responsibilities
Provide guidance on Agile best practices to support high‑performing technology delivery teams, ensuring work is aligned to defined goals and priorities.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Enable team learning and continuous improvement by coaching teams on Agile and Scrum principles and adapting processes as needed.
Partner with product owners, technical leaders, and management to define, prioritize, and deliver technology‑related outcomes.
Maintain transparency with stakeholders around scope, priorities, dependencies, delivery timelines, and risks, addressing concerns as they arise.
Support the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into Agile delivery plans.
Identify trade‑offs between short‑term deliverables and long‑term value to support shared decision‑making.
Apply Agile frameworks to improve the effectiveness, predictability, and quality of technology delivery.
Identify and help remove blockers impacting team execution or architectural work.
Contribute to cross‑team initiatives, special projects, and other delivery‑related efforts as needed.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of three years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred.
Proven experience supporting technology delivery teams in Agile environments.
Strong working knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices.
Hands‑on experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.
Understanding of technical concepts and terminology (no coding required).
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, technology, and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in financial services or enterprise technology environments.
Familiarity with Kanban or SAFe frameworks.
Experience working with DevOps or cloud‑based delivery teams.
Scrum or Agile certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe, or similar).
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of three years related work experience
- Proven experience supporting technology delivery teams in Agile environments
- Strong working knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices
- Hands-on experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar
- Understanding of technical concepts and terminology
- Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
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