Job Description:
The Role
As a Scrum Master we blend deep Scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring, leading, and continual improvement. As part of a highly collaborative squad we advise, mentor, and teach agile values, practices, and processes to accelerate squad value delivery. In partnership with the squad leader, we will maintain a product backlog, help remove impediments, and actively facilitate agile events including the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospectives. We have responsibility to lead release management coordination, scaling events, and planning activities as we manage interdependencies across squads and product areas. We will examine and drive team performance through performance metrics. We will find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile operating model. This opportunity is for a Scrum Master to join an established squad and team-of-teams structure within our Fidelity Institutional Digital Account Management product area.
The ideal candidate for this product area and its squad(s) will operate as a leader who serves highly visible, enterprise level initiatives involving Fidelity Institutional's digital account opening experience.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
4-year bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credential (or, similar Scrum credential) with a minimum of 5 years of Scrum Master experience operating as a leader who serves team(s) and can actively scale across partnering teams in a scrum framework.
Strong understanding of and experience with Agile practices, processes, and artifacts.
Experience and familiarity using tools including Jira, Jira Align, Miro, Microsoft Virtual Board, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Teams.
Lead the impediment resolution process.
Partner with Squad Leads and team members to identify and manage dependencies.
Technology background strongly preferred.
Excellent communication and people skills; can rapidly build trust, positively influence others at all levels of the organization, and drive teams towards realizing outcomes.
Proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals across distinct functions, experiences, and geographies (time zones) as they work through new and unfamiliar situations.
An effective, proven facilitator across all Scrum related events; Able to brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and resolve roadblocks to accelerating value delivery.
An intellectual curiosity, passion for developing skills, modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.
The Team
We support a cross-functional squad focusing on a seamless, fully digital account opening experience for our customers. Our Scrum Masters engage with all team members, including the Squad Leader, to reinforce an agile approach and principles into the daily work. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, we evolve and sustain an innovative agile culture.
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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 top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. 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.
Fidelity's hybrid working model 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.
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, detailed in this document, 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.
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.
