Job Description:
As a Scrum Master you blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring and coaching, and constant improvement. As part of a highly collaborative squad you will advise, mentor, coach and train on performance against agile values, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery. In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments and facilitate agile ceremonies such as the daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives. You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling ceremonies and activities as you manage interdependencies across squads. You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile structure.
The Team
Fidelity Brokerage Technology Scrum Master Chapter Area
Members in our Chapter Area typically work as dedicated Scrum Masters on a software development team. Our Scrum Masters act as co-leaders alongside our aligned squad leaders (aka product owners) to deliver valuable products & features to the team’s stakeholders. We focus on creating an environment where the Scrum framework is leveraged effectively for the benefit of both the team and our stakeholders.
The leadership team in our Chapter Area all have demonstrated excellence as Scrum Masters themselves and are passionate about helping Scrum Masters grow and develop in the role and their careers. We measure our performance with goals that are directly tied to the Scrum Master role and its responsibilities; we are committed to guiding and empowering our chapter members as they pursue their goals. We actively align our Scrum Masters to opportunities that will help them grow as leaders and prepare them for whichever direction they would like to grow their careers.
We support all teams that make up Fidelity’s Brokerage Technology (FBT) division. FBT exists to enable its business partners to win their respective marketplaces by designing, building, and maintaining the technology platforms and products of Fidelity’s Institutional, Personal Investing, and Workplace Investing Business Units.
We strive to deliver amazing things and have fun doing it!
The Expertise You Have
- CSM or equivalent preferred
- Jira experience
- At least 2 years of experience working in an agile environment. Scrum Master experience preferred
The Skills You Bring
- You possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
- Proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from across different functions, experiences and geographies as they work through new and unfamiliar situations
- You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
- An intellectual curiosity and passion for learning new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
The Value You Deliver
- Working collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad’s mission through well-executed sprints
- Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered and find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources
- Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners
- Managing, coordinating logistics for and participating in agile ceremonies (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrum masters)
- Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Mural, MS Teams)
Please see below for the salary range for work locations in Colorado only:
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Please see below for the salary range for work locations in New York City, Westchester County, NY and Jersey City, NJ only:
$103,000 – $137,000 per year
This position is eligible for incentive compensation or an annual bonus opportunity.
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2023. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.
At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.