Scrum Master - Asset Management Technology

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 against agile values 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 agile events such as the daily scrum sprint planning backlog refinement and retrospectives. You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling events and activities as you facilitate interdependencies across squads and product areas. You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile structure.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

As a dedicated scrum master supporting up to 2 squads/teams you will spend a percentage of your time supporting each as needed and actively applying your expertise and experience to help advance the work and improve squads performance.

• Working collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squads mission through well-executed sprints
• Accelerating overall squad performance efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics and providing coaching training and resources
• Maintaining and visualizing 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 - scaled events.
• Supporting adoption and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g. Jira Mural MS Teams)
• Participate in Scrum Master community of practice to further build better scrum behaviors in the environment.
• Support scaling activities within product area and domain.
• Work to embrace a culture of sustainable pace
• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Registered Scrum Master (RSM) certification. SAFe SSM and PMI ACP will be considered.
• 5 years of professional experience
• Jira experience
• Experience working as a scrum team member
• At least 2 years of dedicated experience as a full-time scrum master leading an Agile Scrum Team
• You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills and can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
• You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach
• You are a proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from across different functions experiences and geographies as they work through new and unfamiliar situations
• You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
• You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills and model a culture of continuous learning mentoring and coaching
• You are effective at negotiation and impediment removal.
• Experiences forecasting estimating and planning in an agile environment
• Agile at scale (preferably )

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 to reinforce and embed an agile approach and principles into the day-to-day work. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors you will evolve and sustain an innovative agile culture.

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Fidelitys 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.

Please be advised that Fidelitys business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 the Investment Company Act of 1940 ERISA numerous state laws governing securities investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations including FINRA among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.