Scrum Master with Risk or Capital Market

Job Title: Scrum Master with Risk or Capital Market Exp.

Interview: In-Person(Face-To-Face Only)

Work Location: New York, NY 10020 (Day One Onsite)

Must Have:

• 10+ Years' experience as scrum Master
• Expert in managing JIRA boards
• Market Risk concepts
• Knowledge of Financial and Derivatives related Risk concepts Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk etc.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
• Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Assist in tracking and removing impediments, fostering an environment for high team performance and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Manage project scope and timeline.
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Work with development team on continuous improvement
• Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with other project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a PM or SM in IT with more than 5 years in Financial Institutions (Capital Markets projects, NOT Retail or Banking side)
• Expertise in writing user stories with good acceptance criteria in JIRA
• Good understanding of ETL and Data warehouse concepts with some hands on experience with data analysis
• Expert in managing JIRA boards, Dashboards, Confluence pages, Excel reporting, and creating and tracking KPIs
• Good communication and presentation skills