Scrum Master (Hybrid, flexible options)

$90,000 - $95,000/Yr

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Full-time - Mid Level

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you're passionate about developing your career while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team. We are seeking a Scrum Master to lead our teams in utilizing the Scrum framework to deliver high-impact value to the organization. This role is crucial for facilitating the successful delivery of highly visible, complex projects in support of Broadridge's technology product development teams. The Scrum Master will lead a full Agile team of 5-9 members through the complete Agile process lifecycle, ensuring that the team adheres to Agile principles and practices. The ideal candidate will provide mentorship on agile processes and lead agile ceremonies and other team meetings. They will partner closely with the Product Analyst/Owner to ensure that teams effectively manage backlog requirements and meet sprint objectives while removing any blockers or impediments. This position requires a strong leader who can direct Associate level Scrum Masters and establish best practices that exemplify the values and principles of Agile and Scrum. The Scrum Master will act as a Servant-Leader and Coach, guiding the Scrum team to adopt mature Agile/Scrum methodologies and ensuring adherence to the organization's defined processes and practices. In this role, you will facilitate Agile processes including sprint iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, retrospectives, and release planning. You will ensure the successful completion of assigned projects through effective facilitation and leadership, manage release plans, iteration plans, forecasting, and status reporting for designated projects. Additionally, you will support risk and issue identification and mitigation activities with the agile team, encouraging collaboration and seeking opportunities to improve teamwork across distributed teams and other support teams. Building a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be managed effectively is essential, as is ensuring transparency around project goals and progress.

Responsibilities

• Directs Associate level Scrum Masters and leads setting up of 'best practices' to exemplify the values and principles of Agile and Scrum
• Mentors the project Scrum team to exemplify the values and principles of Agile and Scrum with coaching provided by the Sr. Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, or Release Train Engineers
• Acts as a Servant-Leader and Coach capacity to the Scrum team and ensures that the Scrum team adheres to the organization's defined processes and practices
• Facilitates Agile processes including: sprint iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint demo and retrospectives and release planning
• Ensures successful completion of assigned projects and programs through effective facilitation and leadership
• Facilitates the removal of team level impediments and raises non-team level blockers to conclusion
• Manages release plans, iteration plans, forecasting and status reporting for the designated projects
• Ensures user stories, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and all related documentation are timely and complete, supporting development, testing, and user acceptance activities
• Supports risk and issue identification, and mitigation activities with the agile team including raising those in a proactive and professional fashion, when appropriate
• Encourages collaboration and proactively seeks opportunities to improve collaboration between distributed teams and other support teams
• Facilitates periodic Reviews and Retrospectives by tracking report status through consistent, standardized dashboards and metric reporting
• Improves transparency and visibility across the Broadridge organization within and outside of the team
• Builds a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be managed effectively and professionally
• Shields the team from external interruptions that can derail the team's progress
• Ensures transparency within, and external to the team around the project's goals and progress

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 2-5 years of Scrum Master Experience with a Software Development team
• 5+ years of project management experience in the financial services or technology industry
• 5+ years experience managing multiple/combined complex projects in a successful program
• Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques - Automated Testing, Agile Central, User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Testing, Pairing, Agile Games, etc.
• Scrum Alliance CSM (required) CSP certification or PMI's Agile Certified Professional (ACP)
• Process management
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Consensus building and negotiating skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit offerings including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off
• Flexible work options to support work-life integration
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Disability assistance and reasonable accommodations during the application process