Scrum Master - Asset Management job vacancy

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Position: “Scrum Master”

Location: Boston MA

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leverage agile best practices to facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings, ensuring correct use of scrum process. This includes coaching in agile mindset, removing impediments and support Product Owner roadmap creation (as needed).
Help the team grow in their agile maturity by coaching advanced agile techniques and leverage metrics. Actively identify areas of improvement and conceptualize methods on how to be more effective.
Tracks and publishes prescribed team metrics. Leverage JIRA and/or other tools to allow for transparent visualization of project execution.
Builds strong relationships with business divisions and departments across the company globally; Champions collaborative discussion, decision-making and problem-solving in support of assigned initiatives.
Facilitate the completion of assignments efficiently and without dictating work. Contributes to building a culture where continuous improvement of the development process is a focus with a common goal to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible. Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
Actively participates in the Scrum Master Community of Practice.
Coordinate with other teams to ensure an effective delivery. This includes assisting with internal and external communication to ensure transparency with the team, sponsors and stakeholders.
Performs additional duties as required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
Five or more (5+) years of related project management and/or Scrum Master experience within the asset management or financial services industry.
Five or more (5+) years of business systems analyst experience within the asset management or financial services industry.
Practical experience leading strategic, cross-functional, multi-year projects through all phases of delivery.
Must possess strong business knowledge in asset management (preferred but not required)
Scrum Master Certification preferred