Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: Atlanta, GA

Position Description

This position is located at the client site in Atlanta, GA.

Your Future Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for regulatory reporting initiatives.

• Partner with Product Owners, Regulatory Reporting teams, Finance, Risk, and Technology stakeholders to prioritize work and align sprint objectives with regulatory reporting deadlines.

• Coordinate delivery of enhancements supporting financial and regulatory reporting, including Call Reports, FR Y-9C, FR Y-14, CECL, Basel, liquidity, capital, and other regulatory reporting requirements, as applicable.

• Manage cross-functional dependencies across data, reporting, finance, risk, compliance, and technology teams to support the timely delivery of regulatory reporting capabilities.

• Remove delivery impediments and proactively resolve issues impacting sprint commitments, reporting schedules, and regulatory milestones.

• Track sprint progress, team velocity, release readiness, and key delivery metrics while providing transparent status reporting to program leadership.

• Coordinate backlog management, release planning, and production implementation activities supporting regulatory reporting enhancements and defect remediation.

• Support the delivery of data integration, reporting, reconciliation, and controls initiatives required to improve regulatory reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.

• Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, development teams, quality engineering, data engineering, and regulatory reporting subject-matter experts.

• Monitor project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating potential impacts to regulatory reporting schedules or compliance obligations.

• Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and servant leadership while ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and delivery standards.

• Support audit readiness by coordinating documentation, sprint artifacts, traceability, and evidence required for internal audits and regulatory examinations.

• Ensure delivery activities align with internal controls, SOX requirements, enterprise governance standards, and applicable financial services regulatory reporting obligations.

• Coordinate post-release reviews, production support activities, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance reporting quality, stability, and delivery performance.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of Scrum Master or Agile delivery experience supporting enterprise technology initiatives.

• 5+ years of banking experience.

• 5+ years of experience delivering data engagements.

• Experience leading Agile teams within financial services or banking environments.

• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.

• Strong understanding of project planning, sprint management, backlog grooming, and dependency management.

• Experience using Agile management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or Rally.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting regulatory reporting, finance, risk, or compliance initiatives.

• Knowledge of banking regulatory reporting processes, including FR Y-9C, Call Reports, CCAR, CECL, and Basel.

• Experience supporting large-scale banking conversions or transformation programs.

• Scrum Master certification, such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent.

• Experience working with distributed and offshore Agile delivery teams.

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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, TeamPeople, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.