Agility Lead Scrum Master

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPMC). one of the oldest financial institutions offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers small businesses and many of the worlds most prominent corporate institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking consumer and small business banking commercial banking financial transaction processing and asset management.

Corporate Technology (CT) is responsible for global technology functions including Legal Compliance Controls Finance Liquidity Internal Audit Risk and Reference Data. The organization develops and executes Global Technologys multi-year roadmap to build scalable infrastructure supporting business initiatives as well as positioning the firm effectively for responding to an external regulatory environment.

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart driven people like you to help drive efficiencies for all our corporate functions across our network. Youll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs as well as our technology controls agenda.

Regulatory Controls & Op Risk Technology (RCORT) is partof Corporate Technology which designs and develops business products required to identify and manage JPMCs regulatory obligations and associated firm policies a control environment designed to manage compliance and operational risks across all Lines of Business (LOBs) and Corporate Functions and the calculation of Regulatory Capital and projection of Operational Risk Losses.

Job Description

As an Agility Lead youll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open approachable collaborative and enjoy working with passionate people. Theyre proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Our culture of diversity intellectual curiosity and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We support teamwork thinking big and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. Were excited to see what youll bring to our team.

Job responsibilities

• Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision sprint goals and other necessary information
• Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events
• Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization
• Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team
• Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities including:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Strong familiarity and adherence to core Agile values and principles
• 5 years practicing experience as a Scrum Master.
• Exposure to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration
• A mindset of servant leadership
• An Agile mindset: An attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning a belief that we can all improve over time that our abilities are not fixed but evolve with effort. Linda Rising
• Expert with Agile and Scrum framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization
• Ability to coach and mentor
• Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
• Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS
• Leverage skills from coaching facilitation conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)