Job Description:
The Role
Come join the Workplace Investing Scrum Master Chapter! As a Scrum Master you blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring, coaching, and continuous improvement. As part of highly collaborative agile team(s), you will advise on performance against agile values, practices, metrics, and processes to accelerate value delivery. In partnership with the Product Owner, you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments, and ensure effective agile events. You will support the team by engaging with all team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an agile approach and principles into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts and releases of multiple systems teams with interdependencies to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
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The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Here are the key skills and areas of expertise that are critical for success in this role:
- Bachelor's Degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent preferred
- Introductory scrum master certification required; advanced certifications preferred.
- Substantial experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices and tools (Jira, Kanban, Lean), technology, and value delivery for customers
- Experience leading new programs, where research and experimentation are required to develop a backlog and roadmap.
- Adaptable and highly organized. Thrives in uncertainty with a strong ability to bring order to chaos.
- Able to effectively communicate to all levels, from facilitating technical meetings to summarizing updates for senior leadership.
- Working closely with the Product Owner to plan and complete the highest priority work as per the product roadmap through well-executed sprints
- Accelerating overall team performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across teams to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training, and resources
- Ensuring agile events are planned for and effective (e.g. sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrums)
- Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the team members and transparency to other partners
- Organizing and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences
- Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
- Coaching and mentoring complex teams
- Participating in a community of practice, providing scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
The Team
The Workplace Investing Scrum Master Chapter is committed to coaching, developing, and empowering Scrum Masters to lead development teams that embrace the agile mindset. We have established a learning culture that amplifies best practices, delivers consistent, predictable, and impactful results, celebrates diversity and inclusion, creates a safe and respectful environment, and provides career guidance and mobility opportunities for Scrum Masters. We build trusted, collaborative relationships with our product and technology partners across Fidelity and embrace customer-focused methodologies that enable innovation and drive valuable product delivery. 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.
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Program/Project 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.