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Lead Scrum Master

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you’ll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll be supported and surrounded by other experts as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
Retirement benefits
Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job:

The Lead Scrum Master is a key member of a development squad with a well-defined software development life cycle process. The Lead Scrum Master applies a broad technical knowledge of the Agile methodology to manage the scrum process with geographically dispersed teams to deliver exceptional standards in product quality and timely, predictable delivery of projects. The Lead Scrum Master oversees multi-functional coordination and communication, requirements traceability, release management, test case management, and defect tracking concerns to keep delivery on track.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Agile Knowledge and expertise
Understands Agile and relevant frameworks (e.g., scrum) to improve the success of the squad.
Possess a comprehensive understanding of Agile tools, techniques, principles and values and apply this knowledge to the squad.
Coach PO and squad to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with refined user stories.
Successfully balance delivery timeframes and continuous iteration so that customer feedback is always incorporated.
Participate in Scrum of Scrums sessions to ensure the Squad and the others in the Tribe are aligned on priorities, dependencies and timelines.
Coaching and Facilitation
Provide role (PO, QA, Dev, etc.) based coaching and proactively facilitate coaching session with the squad.
Coach the squad to consider how squad/product vision affects other squads we regularly interact with.
Create a safe environment for all ceremonies to encourage active participation from all squad members.
Facilitate and mediate conflicts within the squad.
Reporting
Ensure accurate and transparent communications to collaborators with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments.
Release Planning
Supports Product Owner on release planning.
Coordinate movement of code between Development, Testing, UAT and Production environments and a related planning, resourcing and scheduling activities.
Project Management
Project Planning
Goal Setting
Managing Job Schedules
Coordinating Resources
Managing and delivering projects to specification using a defined development process and delivering within budget and timeline
Mind Set and Behavior
Build meaningful relationships with squad members and resolve most issues leveraging your rapport and trust with squad members.
Be an enthusiastic change agent and peer.
Accept change and use it to drive continuous learning and process improvements within the squads.
Continuously seek and act on feedback received to bring about positive changes. Servant Leadership
Understand both the squad’s overall capacity and impediments that impact individual members of the squad. Work to create a team culture that values sustainable execution by not over-committing.
Coach the squad to provide input for squad level decision making to achieve a common goal.
Identify and work to resolve mindset impediments as they arise.
Coach squad with knowledge and expertise as well as encourage experimentation to support their journey towards self-sufficiency.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents Needed For Success:

Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Additional Qualifications:

Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
Experience in Agile Development, with Scrum Master (or similar) experience
Previous software development lifecycle experience
Scrum Master certification a plus

Who We Are:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.