Job Description
Workplace Investing Technology
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 team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an Agile approach into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts and releases of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
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 certification preferred
Strong influencing, negotiation, and coaching experience with development teams in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
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
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 team 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.
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.
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.
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
Job Tags
Work from home, Flexible hours, 1 day per week,