Scrum Master

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Company: DTCC
Location: Tampa, FL

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About this Opportunity

The AD Scrum Master applies a broad technical knowledge of the Agile methodology in order to manage the scrum process with geographically dispersed teams to deliver exceptional standards in product quality and timely, predictable delivery of projects. This involves guiding the scrum team on how to use Agile practices and removing impediments for the scrum team. The AD Scrum Master organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting, arranges daily stand-up meetings, schedules demos, conducts retrospective meetings and facilitates the decision-making process. This position requires working closely with product owners to groom the product backlog to ensure it is ready for the next sprint. The AD Scrum Master tends to cross functional coordination and communication, requirements traceability, release management, test case management, and defect tracking concerns to keep delivery on track.


Business Unit: Information Technology

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Department: Application Development

AD delivers solutions that respond to the business needs of the global capital markets with quality, efficiency, and excellence, using innovative technologies and providing secure information management.


What You’ll Do
  • Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
  • Demonstrates proficiency in conflict resolution
  • Ability to track and remove impediments
  • Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum processes
  • Ability to shield team from outside distractions and interferences
  • Radiates information between squad and stakeholders to ensure alignment
  • Assists team or individuals to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
  • Serves as a coach in Agile practices
  • Proficiency in estimation and planning
  • Effective communicator with the ability to maintain a cohesive team
  • Knowledge of other agile methodologies and frameworks like Kanban and XP
  • Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
  • Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures
  • Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing
  • Ability to take and understand commitments to deliver projects on time
  • Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
  • Experience using Jira or similar tool for managing Sprints and User Stories.
  • Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices
  • Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately


Sound Like You?

  • Minimum of 6 years of related experience
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred with Masters or equivalent experience


Additional Qualifications

  • Minimum of 6 years’ experience as a Scrum Master in IT and/or Financial Services
  • Bachelor degree in a technical discipline preferred; Scrum Master certification


Who We Are
With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities, data centers and offices in 16 countries, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. In 2018, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $1.85 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from 170 countries and territories valued at U.S. $52.2 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes over 14 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at http://www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.