Scrum Master

NY-based only. Financial Services is a MUST. This role will partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, and senior business stakeholders to drive execution across multiple agile workstreams in a highly regulated enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate combines strong agile delivery leadership with program governance, stakeholder management, and operational rigor. Candidates should be comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent initiatives and cross-functional dependencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Agile Delivery & Execution
• Own end-to-end delivery execution across multiple initiatives and workstreams.
• Translate roadmap milestones into actionable release plans, sprint goals, and delivery checkpoints.
• Partner with Product Owners to align priorities with engineering capacity and delivery commitments.
• Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, retrospectives, and release coordination.
• Track and manage delivery progress against committed scope, timelines, and quality objectives.
• Identify and remove delivery impediments to maintain team velocity and execution predictability. Program Governance, Risk & Controls
• Ensure adherence to enterprise delivery governance, audit, and risk management standards.
• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
• Manage technology, operational, and delivery risks across complex programs.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC, release management, and change management processes.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and escalation management. Stakeholder Communication & Reporting
• Produce concise, executive-level delivery status reporting for technology and business leadership.
• Chair weekly and monthly service delivery and program status meetings.
• Communicate delivery health through meaningful KPIs and metrics, including: o Sprint predictability o Dependency risk o Quality indicators o Release readiness
• Serve as the single source of truth for program status, risks, dependencies, and execution progress.
• Facilitate alignment across business, product, and technology stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Technology Program Manager, Scrum Master, or Agile Delivery Lead.
• Strong experience leading large-scale agile technology delivery programs.
• Experience supporting enterprise platforms, digital transformation, or modernization initiatives.
• Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and SDLC methodologies.
• Strong program governance, RAID management, and risk mitigation experience.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and agile reporting tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services or wealth management technology experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working in highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with release management and enterprise change control processes.
• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMP, or related certifications preferred.

Ideal Candidate

• Profile
• Highly organized and execution-focused.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and driving alignment across large organizations.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
• Proactive problem solver with strong attention to detail and operational discipline.