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, this role will actively contribute to the planning, delivery, and reporting for our large scale modernization of our back office systems. You will be a Scrum Master for one or two application delivery teams and work with our other scrum masters to ensure the entire program is operating in an effective and efficient manner. You will also work with our agile and project experts to improve on our existing agile and scrum processes and tool usage.

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 delivery team, in addition to driving scrum-of-scrums and agile best practices within a program of approximately 6 delivery teams.
• 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 program 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 3 years of project management experience and 4 years leading sprints
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• High level of proficiency with Office 365 (MS Office) applications, with strong skills in JIRA and Confluence
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• Strong leader with innate ability to influence
• Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• 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 Executive level 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

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.