Senior Scrum Master, ETF Technology, Inv Tech

Overview

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach and mentor Scrum teams and stakeholders on Agile principles and best practices.
• Remove impediments and obstacles that hinder team progress.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure a well-groomed and prioritized product backlog.
• Track and report on team performance metrics and progress.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance within teams.
• Work closely with other Scrum Masters and Agile coaches to align practices across teams.
• Support organizational Agile transformation initiatives.
• Manage risks and dependencies across multiple teams and projects.
• Facilitate conflict resolution and promote a collaborative team environment.
• Gather and analyze information on existing business processes in order to make recommendations that seek to improve business systems and processes
• Provide business analysis during all phases of a project
• Analyze and document requirements for improvements to systems and / or business processes
• May involve investigation of third-party vendors or systems
• Understand the different business fields in database and map the fields across applications
• Clearly document solutions and recommendations to business problems
• Lead reviews of requirements and designs with relevant business partners to obtain agreement and sign off of proposals
• Secure and coordinate the necessary resources for a project by working with appropriate line managers including any vendor or third-party resources
• Create and present accurate estimates of effort, costs and timescales for proposed projects and assist in prioritization
• Coordinate user testing, ensuring issues are resolved in a pragmatic and appropriate manner
• Assist in maintaining an application issues log to gather any system or business process issues, enhancements, bugs or new business requirements
  
  

• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodology
• Demonstrable experience managing projects including responsibility for the whole project life cycle and completing projects on time and within budget
• Ability to perform Business Analysis and Data mapping across multiple applications
• Experience in writing Database queries, ability to read and comprehend stored procedures to understand the business logic
• Well versed with all activities of Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience / exposure to Snowflake preferred
• Good understanding of BA Validation Testing and Testing frameworks
• Having a high-level understanding of Snowflake is preferred
• Experience in taking care of Vendor applications and custom interface development is preferred
• Experience analyzing business or technical problems and proposing and implementing solutions
• IT literate with good knowledge of the Microsoft suite of products
• Knowledge of change management, process documentation and testing tools
• At least 10 years of experience in similar role
  
  

• Excellent verbal skills (must be capable of communicating clearly and effectively to senior business users, IT management and internal team members) and written skills (including ability to produce process flowcharting, requirements, project plans, and formal business solution documents)
• Able to work in a global, multicultural environment
• Able to influence and build relationships at all levels of staff
• Must demonstrate a strong customer focused attitude and understand the fundamentals of customer service
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage conflict well
• Very good inter-personal skills combined with willingness to listen
• Disciplined time management skills
• Ability to multi-task and work on more than one initiative at a time
• Flexible – able to meet changing requirements and priorities
• Self-motivated. Capable of working with little or no supervision
• Ability to react positively under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Able to work independently or as a team player
• Maintenance of up-to-date knowledge in the appropriate technical areas
• Enjoy challenging and thought-provoking work and have a strong desire to learn and progress
  
  

• Broad knowledge of the systems and business processes in use for the Front-, Mid-, and Back-office functions within Investment/AssetManagement Domain.
• Understanding of Investments data and market data supporting investment processes.
• A strong understanding of Equity, Fixed Income and Derivative instruments used with the financial services.
• Familiar with Standard Indices like MSCI, FTSE etc
  
  

(minimum requirement to perform job duties)

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems or Computer Science or Business Administration is preferred or commensurate relevant work experience
• Formal business analysis training and/or qualification preferred
• Formal project management training and/or qualification preferred.
  
  

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally.

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What’s in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to:

• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible, Hybrid Work
• 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Planning
• Group Personal Accident Insurance
• Medical Insurance for Employee and Family
• Annual Health Check-up
• 26 weeks Maternity Leave
• Paternal Leave
• Adoption Leave
• Near site Childcare Facility
• Employee Assistance Program
• Study Support
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• ESG Commitments and Goals
• Business Resource Groups
• Career Development Programs
• Mentoring Programs
• Invesco Cares
• Dress for your Day
  
  

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.

To Know More About Us

About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html

About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html

About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html

About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html

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