Fidelity Investments
Scrum Master - Fidelity Institutional
Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH
Job Description:
The Role
As a Scrum Master we blend deep Scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring, leading, and continual improvement. As part of a highly collaborative squad we advise, mentor, and teach agile values, practices, and processes to accelerate squad value delivery. In partnership with the squad leader, we will maintain a product backlog, help remove impediments, and actively facilitate agile events including the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospectives. We have responsibility to lead release management coordination, scaling events, and planning activities as we manage interdependencies across squads and product areas. We will examine and drive team performance through performance metrics. We will find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile operating model. This opportunity is for a Scrum Master to join an established squad within our Fidelity Institutional Wealth Advisory product area.
The ideal candidate for this product area and its squad will operate as a leader who serves highly visible initiatives involving Fidelity Institutional integrated portfolio solutions shared data.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
The Team
We support a cross-functional squad focusing on a seamless, fully digital account opening experience for our customers. Our Scrum Masters engage with all team members, including the Squad Leader, to reinforce an agile approach and principles into the daily work. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, we evolve and sustain an innovative agile culture.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
The Role
As a Scrum Master we blend deep Scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring, leading, and continual improvement. As part of a highly collaborative squad we advise, mentor, and teach agile values, practices, and processes to accelerate squad value delivery. In partnership with the squad leader, we will maintain a product backlog, help remove impediments, and actively facilitate agile events including the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospectives. We have responsibility to lead release management coordination, scaling events, and planning activities as we manage interdependencies across squads and product areas. We will examine and drive team performance through performance metrics. We will find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile operating model. This opportunity is for a Scrum Master to join an established squad within our Fidelity Institutional Wealth Advisory product area.
The ideal candidate for this product area and its squad will operate as a leader who serves highly visible initiatives involving Fidelity Institutional integrated portfolio solutions shared data.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 4-year bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credential (or, similar Scrum credential) with a minimum of 2 years of Scrum Master experience operating as a leader who serves team(s) and can actively scale across partnering teams in a scrum framework.
- Strong understanding of and experience with Agile practices, processes, and artifacts.
- Experience and familiarity using tools including Jira, Jira Align, Miro, Microsoft Virtual Board, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Teams.
- Lead the impediment resolution process.
- Partner with Squad Lead and team members to identify and manage dependencies.
- Technology background strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication and people skills; can rapidly build trust, positively influence others at all levels of the organization, and drive teams towards realizing outcomes.
- Proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals across distinct functions, experiences, and geographies (time zones) as they work through new and unfamiliar situations.
- An effective, proven facilitator across all Scrum related events; Able to brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and resolve roadblocks to accelerating value delivery.
- An intellectual curiosity, passion for developing skills, modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.
The Team
We support a cross-functional squad focusing on a seamless, fully digital account opening experience for our customers. Our Scrum Masters engage with all team members, including the Squad Leader, to reinforce an agile approach and principles into the daily work. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, we evolve and sustain an innovative agile culture.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.