Scrum Master
Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: Atlanta, GA
Position Description
This position is located at the client site in Atlanta, GA.
Your Future Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for regulatory reporting initiatives.
- Partner with Product Owners, Regulatory Reporting teams, Finance, Risk, and Technology stakeholders to prioritize work and align sprint objectives with regulatory reporting deadlines.
- Coordinate delivery of enhancements supporting financial and regulatory reporting, including Call Reports, FR Y-9C, FR Y-14, CECL, Basel, liquidity, capital, and other regulatory reporting requirements, as applicable.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies across data, reporting, finance, risk, compliance, and technology teams to support the timely delivery of regulatory reporting capabilities.
- Remove delivery impediments and proactively resolve issues impacting sprint commitments, reporting schedules, and regulatory milestones.
- Track sprint progress, team velocity, release readiness, and key delivery metrics while providing transparent status reporting to program leadership.
- Coordinate backlog management, release planning, and production implementation activities supporting regulatory reporting enhancements and defect remediation.
- Support the delivery of data integration, reporting, reconciliation, and controls initiatives required to improve regulatory reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, development teams, quality engineering, data engineering, and regulatory reporting subject-matter experts.
- Monitor project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating potential impacts to regulatory reporting schedules or compliance obligations.
- Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and servant leadership while ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and delivery standards.
- Support audit readiness by coordinating documentation, sprint artifacts, traceability, and evidence required for internal audits and regulatory examinations.
- Ensure delivery activities align with internal controls, SOX requirements, enterprise governance standards, and applicable financial services regulatory reporting obligations.
- Coordinate post-release reviews, production support activities, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance reporting quality, stability, and delivery performance.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of Scrum Master or Agile delivery experience supporting enterprise technology initiatives.
- 5+ years of banking experience.
- 5+ years of experience delivering data engagements.
- Experience leading Agile teams within financial services or banking environments.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.
- Strong understanding of project planning, sprint management, backlog grooming, and dependency management.
- Experience using Agile management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or Rally.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting regulatory reporting, finance, risk, or compliance initiatives.
- Knowledge of banking regulatory reporting processes, including FR Y-9C, Call Reports, CCAR, CECL, and Basel.
- Experience supporting large-scale banking conversions or transformation programs.
- Scrum Master certification, such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent.
- Experience working with distributed and offshore Agile delivery teams.
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