15 May
Principal Scrum Master
New Jersey, Jerseycity , 07310 Jerseycity USA

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Principal Scrum Master Jersey City or Boston

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day. Pay and Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
  • Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
  • Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements

Why you'll love this job The Principal Scrum Master role specializes in applying technical knowledge of the Agile methodology to manage and support the Scrum process, clearing obstacles and guiding the Scrum team on best use of Agile practices. Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting, arranges daily stand-up meetings, schedules demos, conducts retrospective meetings and facilitates the decision-making process. Oversees cross-functional coordination and communication, requirements traceability, release management, test case management, and defect tracking concerns to keep delivery on track.

Your Primary Responsibilities The Principal Scrum Master is a people manager role and is involved in the project lifecycle from initiation through budgeting and to delivery. He/She guides assigned teams in the use of the Scrum framework including the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices. The Principal Scrum Master will also ensure that roles and responsibilities across squads are clear and that squads are self-governing. This position requires working closely with Product Owners to refine and maintain the product backlog and ensure alignment with product goals and vision. The role creates and maintains Jira projects and is responsible for tracking and reporting on team commitments as well as resolving (or assisting in resolving) risks, issues, and dependencies. The Principal Scrum Master facilitates all agile ceremonies including the Scrum or Scrums and uses the output from these ceremonies to resolve conflict and improve team performance as well as independence. The role is critical in identifying and driving standards and best practices within and across squads. The Principal Scrum Master is also responsible for analysis of Squad member skills and creating skills maturity plans. The incumbent maintains alignment with tribe ways of working, OKRs and instills a tribe mentality within squads. Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above

Talents Needed for Success
  • 7-10 years of managing projects using the Agile (Scrum and/or Kanban) Methodology.
  • Demonstrated experience in people (Scrum masters) management.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing dependencies outside your scope of control.
  • Demonstrated experience in Agile concepts including backlog creation and management, estimation, and Scrum and Quality metrics across multiple backlogs/projects.
  • Demonstrated experience with Risk and Issue Identification and Management, Quality Management, Resource Identification and Planning, and Stakeholder Communication.
  • Demonstrated experience with Jira including Dashboards and Jira Plans.
  • Scrum certification from either the Scrum Alliance (CSM), Scrum.org (PSM I), Scaled Agile (SAFe Associate Director Scrum Master) or the Project Management Institute (ACP).

Preferred Qualifications
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or Computer Information Systems.
  • Experience in IT project management delivery using Kanban concepts.
  • Experience following and complying with a defined software delivery process and associated controls.
  • Experience in IT project management using a Phased (waterfall) delivery approach.
  • Experience with project and portfolio management tools (such as HP PPM).
  • Experience working in the Financial Services or Financial Technologies (fintech) space.
  • Experience with Excel Pivot Tables or Power BI.
  • Experience working within the organizational structure of a Project Management Office (PMO).
DTCC is the heart of the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations all over the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. In 2020, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $2.3 quadrillion.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. About Us About DTCCDTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind. About the TeamTo maintain strong alignment between IT and the business, we are bringing together all Solutions-focused teams under a unified technology organization, IT Solutions. The newly-formed IT Solutions department combines Application Development and Enterprise Application Support functions, allowing us to leverage synergies to support the Solutions business lines.

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