Vice President, Scrum Leader II

Overview

Embrace the change, be the change.

Join BNY Mellon's enterprise-wide strategic initiative to transform into a more agile, cross-functional, future-oriented firm. Be part of a highly skilled and experienced group whose mission is to instill an agile mindset and industry-leading techniques across the company. Work directly with cross-functional teams and senior leaders to identify opportunities to deliver high quality business outcomes at a faster pace than ever before. Engage daily with teams to overcome roadblocks and implement scalable solutions that will improve team and organizational agility alike. Help build better ways of working and by doing so, build your professional experience through constant collaboration with teams and businesses supporting diverse clients across the globe.

Responsibilities for senior scrum master

• Empower teams to self-organize and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
• Coach and mentor the team on agile practices and principles to deliver client value in increments that meet the definition of done.
• Collaborate with agile roles in backlog grooming, capacity planning, and PI planning with a view to supporting agile execution of the portfolio / program / project.
• Conduct and lead all scrum ceremonies on a planned cadence to ensure they are productive and timeboxed.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of product and delivery lifecycles, standards, and support related processes and practices.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities in upcoming sprints and able to impact beyond area of responsibility.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Backlogs
• Ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value.
• Participates in daily Scrum of Scrums (S2) meeting and clearly communicates team accomplishments/impediments.
• Leveraging data to measuring & monitoring progress against commitments
• Escalating risks and resolving impediments to help reduce delivery cycle times.
• Utilizes team feedback and metrics to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Qualifications for senior scrum master
• Experience working with scrum and kanban along with scaled agile frameworks in medium to large organizations.
• Experience change agent skilled at resolving conflict, and driving consensus with multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multi-functional and multi-location teams on complex, integrated platforms
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, sizing, velocity tracking, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Experience using Scrum / Agile tools and MS Office applications.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Preferred Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or Management required
• Financial domain knowledge preferred in the Wealth Management or Asset Management space.

The Scrum Leader is accountable for establishing and maintaining Scrum, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization. The Scrum Leader serves the Scrum Team (Team) by: Causing removals of impediments to the Team's progress; Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox; Helping Teams focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done; Coaching Teams in self-management and cross-functionality. The Scrum Leader serves the Product Owner by: facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed; Providing techniques for effective product goal definition and backlog management; and Helping establish empirical product planning for complex environments. The Scrum Leader serves the Organization by: Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work; Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.

Primary responsibilities include: Ensuring Scrum principles and practices are followed, Scrum team events occur, are productive and kept within timeboxes. Removing impediments identified by Teams. Tracking and resolving team dependencies. Ensuring Teams' effectiveness in using Scrum: responsible for enabling programs to meet their expected outcomes by supporting them in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making. Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality. Helping Teams focus on creating increments of value for each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration goals in the context of current program objectives. Using Data driven approaches to help Teams eliminate waste, improve productivity and improve team performance. Working with Portfolio and Product leaders to manage the program backlog and guide the program while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope. Ensuring quality of agile practices within their teams' expertise. Facilitates Team level events as well as Big Room Planning and program level events and readiness. Helps Teams come up with Iteration Goals and PI objectives. Aggregate team objectives into Program Objectives. Fosters innovation and implementation of strategic solutions within regional/global, large programs. Helps in managing and optimizing the value delivery flow through the program/Business domain within a line of business. Guides and coaches one or more programs on how to use agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers. Ensures enterprise project and program lifecycle, activities and artifacts are managed to completion, where applicable. May oversee and coach less experienced Scrum Leaders. Gets teams within programs to high performing levels by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. Teaches problem solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves. Helps the teams within a program improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the problem-solving workshop. Helps the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope. Contributes to the achievement of related area objectives.

Relevant competencies: Agile Leadership-Advanced / Agile Methodologies-Advanced / Business Process Improvement-Intermediate/ Cross Functional Team Leadership-Intermediate / Kanban- Advanced / Lean-Advanced / Requirements Analysis-Beginner / Requirements Gathering-Beginner / Scaled Frameworks-Advanced / Scrum-Expert / Servant Leadership-Advanced / Written and Oral Communication-Advanced

Modified based upon local regulations/requirements. Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required. 6-8 years of relevant experience in similar role. Previous technical experience is preferred. Experience in Scrum Master role for software development team for large initiatives. Knowledge of various Agile approaches: Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, Spotify, etc. Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games. Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc. Ability to learn new technology quickly, demonstrated by experience in an engineering environment. Ability to take ambiguous topics and translate into actionable plans working with multiple business, operational and technical stakeholders. Excellent communication and mentoring skills. Preferred to have Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM. Talent for driving change. Ability to drive consensus and resolve conflicts across multiple parties. Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of Agile methods, User Story writing, and prioritization techniques.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team-one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve-and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

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