Principal Scrum Master

About the position

The Principal Scrum Master is a servant leader with a growth mindset, responsible for facilitating squad delivery while ensuring proper governance of process. They are responsible for acting as a trusted coach, guiding the squad during ceremonies, removing impediments, and embodying Our Ways of Working. Additionally, Scrum Master takes the lead in maintaining the accuracy of, JIRA and governance artifacts in addition to promoting, improving, training, mentoring and embracing project management and scrum mastery best practices. As an Associate Director, the Principal Scrum Master is encouraged to be a leader on the team and in the community of Scrum Masters.

Responsibilities

• Identify and help to remove impediments from the Squad, following escalation paths as needed.
• Interact with CoE's on status, issues, collaboration, collaborator engagement.
• Liaise with Product Owner and Tribe/Hub Stakeholders to support Tribe activities such as the Quarterly Tribe Review.
• Ensure Squad Manager Tool is up to date (Squad Members, OKRs, supporting documentation).
• Plan and chair (host) key meetings, help facilitate Sprint 0, SOS and distribute minutes for tracking purposes; follow-up as required.
• Create the project in JIRA, ensuring that traceability is maintained, accuracy and overall health is provided via metrics and dashboards; ensure rules are being followed.
• Train users and oversee JIRA backlog and planning sessions (PO owns backlog). Additionally, accurately define 'Issue Type and Association' in JIRA.
• Create project(s), perform updates on resource, tasks, and allocations in PPM. Monitor staffing profiles, time tracking, budgeting, and forecast vs. actuals.
• Manage release planning in accordance with Change Management policy.
• Acts as a change agent, guiding the squad on agile best practices and alignment with Our Ways of Working (OWoW), collaborating with agile coaches as needed.
• Takes a multidisciplinary view of squad's body of work and being forward-thinking on initiatives and epics.
• Leading Agile Ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retro, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Planning.
• As an Associate Director, act as a leader within the community of Scrum Masters.
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with SDP and pass DPA audit requirements.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Solid understanding of agile methodology.
• Understanding of the end-to-end Institutional post trade Derivatives lifecycle highly desirable.
• Experience with similar business/application messaging systems and protocols (e.g., SQL, MQ, Sftp, MS azure, XLST) an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits.
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.