Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

Level/Function: Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

Title: Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

About BetaNXT

BetaNXT is a leading provider of frictionless wealth management infrastructure, real-time data solutions, and an enhanced advisor experience. We invest in platforms, products, and partnerships to accelerate growth for the ecosystem we serve. Our connective approach empowers our clients to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end advisor and investor experience.

BetaNXT is a premier provider of technology, data, and operations as services to a rich client base of wealth managers, institutional wealth firms, and digital brokers. It is comprised of three industry-leading businesses which, combined, provide end-to-end solutions across the investment lifecycle.

Overview of the Senior Specialist, Scrum Master:

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

Duties and Responsibilities of the Senior Specialist, Scrum Master:

Facilitate daily stand-up, release and iteration planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
Guide team in story pointing and work effort estimates.
Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
Partner with project management to develop and track project risks and delivery output and timelines.
Drive team iteration execution and communicate with management and stakeholders.
Lead multi-team sprint review preparation and presentation.
Conduct post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
Lead team effort in relentless improvement.
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments.
Present high level project readouts for program leadership and senior management.

Skills and Experience of the Senior Specialist, Scrum Master:

5+ Years of experience leading sprints as a Scrum Master
BA/BS degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
Scrum Master or Scrum Coaching certifications preferred
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
High level of proficiency in JIRA and Confluence
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Effective leader with a natural ability to influence and motivate teams.
Proven understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable presenting project readouts and updates to a variety of stakeholder audiences.
Deep understanding of agile metrics (burndown metrics, velocity, KPI’s, etc.) to analyze and improve
Demonstrates the ability to understand and effectively represent both business and technology perspectives.
Excellent communication skills in person, over the phone, and through email.

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