Senior Scrum Master

Senior Scrum Master with Financial Services experience

• Contract Position (6 months +)
• Candidate must be currently located in MA/RI/NH
• Hybrid in Boston - 3 days onsite
• In person interview

8+ years Scrum Master experience with strong Agile/Scrum practices , delivery of epics/releases, Financial Services (Asset Management/IT Investment Management) experience, Agile maturity coaching, stakeholder leadership, Scrum-of-Scrums, hybrid work capability, and strong facilitation, communication, and team leadership skills (technical background preferred).

Must Have:

• 8 years of experience in a Scrum Master or similar Agile role applying Agile principles and practices including delivery of several epics, releases and versions and application of a wide variety of patterns and techniques (i.e., leveraging burndown, facilitating retrospectives, refining user stories, etc.) preferred.
• Experience supporting financial services project in Asset Management (for example: investor research initiatives, trading platform enhancements, front-office and investment operations projects, portfolio analytics and reporting)
• Programming/development experience, technical background is preferred, not required.
• Experience implementing best practices and standards related to Agile product development preferred.
• Experience leading others with the ability to earn trust while still challenging the team to improve and operate outside its comfort zone in an Agile environment preferred.
• Increase the overall Agile maturity for teams and support higher complexity work towards successful outcomes.
• Supports Agile team(s) that have various levels of agile maturity; actively works to upskill those teams in agile practices and increases their overall agile maturity.
• May also play a scrum-of-scrum role, managing the flow of work through an entire domain rather than on an individual team or teams.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Requirements added by the job poster
• 4+ years of work experience with IT Investment Management
• 3+ years of Financial Services experience
• 2+ years of work experience with Agile Project Management