Technical Scrum Lead

About The Job

The Technical Scrum Lead partners with technology and product teams to drive Agile delivery, improve execution, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role focuses on facilitating Agile ceremonies, enabling high-performing teams, and coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced technology environment.

This is a delivery and facilitation role and is ideal for an experienced Scrum Lead who can confidently guide teams, remove obstacles, and adapt Agile practices to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on Agile best practices to support high-performing technology delivery teams, ensuring work is aligned to defined goals and priorities.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Enable team learning and continuous improvement by coaching teams on Agile and Scrum principles and adapting processes as needed.
• Partner with product owners, technical leaders, and management to define, prioritize, and deliver technology-related outcomes.
• Maintain transparency with stakeholders around scope, priorities, dependencies, delivery timelines, and risks, addressing concerns as they arise.
• Support the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into Agile delivery plans.
• Identify trade-offs between short-term deliverables and long-term value to support shared decision-making.
• Apply Agile frameworks to improve the effectiveness, predictability, and quality of technology delivery.
• Identify and help remove blockers impacting team execution or architectural work.
• Contribute to cross-team initiatives, special projects, and other delivery-related efforts as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of three years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred.
• Proven experience supporting technology delivery teams in Agile environments.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices.
• Hands-on experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Understanding of technical concepts and terminology (no coding required).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, technology, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in financial services or enterprise technology environments.
• Familiarity with Kanban or SAFe frameworks.
• Experience working with DevOps or cloud-based delivery teams.
• Scrum or Agile certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe, or similar).

Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Client-provided location(s): Charlotte, NC, Malvern, PA

Job ID: Vanguard-176985

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-05-14T20:39:09