Job Description
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 team(s) 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.
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
· Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/equivalent preferred
· Experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices and tools (Jira, Kanban, Lean) 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 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.
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.
Company Overview
Fidelity TalentSource is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s supportive and collaborative culture while expanding your skill set and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource. Apply today at FTSJobs.com
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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 TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, please contact our HR team at HR@ ftsjobs.com.
Information about Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: 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. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com
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Fidelity’s hybrid working model
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blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.
Job Tags
Temporary work, Work experience placement, Remote job, Work from home, Flexible hours, 1 day per week,