Lead Associate, Scrum Master

The Company

BetaNXT is the next wave in wealth management technology and outsourcing solutions. We focused on solving our customers most demanding integration challenges with flexible, efficient, connected solutions. Our products reduce enterprise cost, streamline operation processes, increase advisor productivity, and enhances the investor experience. Together with BetaNXT, wealth management firms are transforming their platforms into differentiating assets that enable scale and commercial growth.

But we're not just invested in our customers; we're also invested in people. We know that our overall success is a combined effort, and we therefore strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow and thrive.

The Opportunity

BETA is a self-clearing securities processing solution for wealth management firms. Built on years of expert knowledge and hands-on experience, BETA provides critical back-office controls including corporate action management, middle office exception management, and front office account management and trading tools for advisors.

As a member of the Program Management Office (PMO) team, you will actively contribute to the planning, delivery, and reporting for our application development teams. You will be a Scrum Master for application delivery teams and work with our product and technical leads to ensure the teams are operating in an effective and efficient manner.

What You’ll Do

Using a servant leader mindset and expert knowledge of agile practices and the scrum framework you’ll help enable the delivery of high quality customer facing applications. Core responsibilities will include:

• Scrum Master for at least one application development/delivery team
• Facilitates daily stand-up, release and iteration planning, sprint review, and retrospectives
• Guides team in story pointing and work effort estimates
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Partners with project management to develop and track project risks and delivery output and timelines
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders
• Leads multi-team sprint review preparation and presentation
• Able to do post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments
• Presents high level project readouts for program leadership and senior management
  
  
  

Your Experience

• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
• Scrum Master or Scrum Coaching certifications and/or relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years leading sprints as a Scrum Master
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• High level of proficiency in JIRA and Confluence
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• Strong leader with innate ability to influence
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
• Comfortable with presenting project readouts to stakeholder audience
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (burndown metrics, velocity, KPI’s, etc.) to analyze and improve
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
• Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email