Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

• Level/Function: Senior Specialist, Scrum Master Title: Senior Specialist, Scrum Master
• About Beta
• NXTBeta
• NXT 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 MasterAs 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.
• Leads and supports SAFe implementation by driving team readiness and effective execution of quarterly PI Planning events.
• Skills And Experience Of The Senior Specialist, Scrum Master5+ 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.

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation package commensurate with experience including full benefits offering and PTO. Minimum salary of $95,000 plus bonus opportunities and other incentives.