Job#: 3057839 Job Description: Scrum Manager
Position Summary
The Scrum Manager partners closely with the Product/Experience Owner and cross-functional technology teams to facilitate Sprint events, strengthen Agile delivery practices, and ensure squads achieve agreed-upon product and Sprint goals.
This role promotes self-organization, accountability, collaborative decision-making, and continuous improvement. The Scrum Manager also plays an important role in coordinating vulnerability remediation efforts across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, Infrastructure, and other enterprise teams.
Key Responsibilities
Agile & Scrum Leadership
- Partner with the Product/Experience Owner to plan and facilitate Sprint events and promote effective team collaboration.
- Drive self-organization, accountability, continuous improvement, and a focus on outcomes.
- Monitor and improve Scrum processes to increase overall delivery effectiveness.
- Identify, escalate, and help remove impediments or external distractions impacting the development team.
- Keep squads focused on agreed Sprint goals and priorities across product and Sprint backlogs.
- Coordinate across departments and enterprise teams to manage dependencies and promote Agile best practices.
- Apply Agile and Scrum practices across complex applications, platforms, and technology environments.
- Communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, and priorities to stakeholders and leadership.
Engineering & Delivery Practices
- Support engineering best practices and the long-term integrity and maintainability of applications.
- Promote shift-left development practices, including early quality validation, automated testing, pair programming, and mob programming when appropriate.
- Partner with Engineering teams to continuously improve development and delivery processes.
Vulnerability Management & Security
- Integrate security and vulnerability remediation into Sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release-readiness activities.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, business impact, and regulatory requirements.
- Track remediation commitments, vulnerability aging, risk exceptions, and overdue findings through closure.
- Ensure critical and high-risk vulnerabilities receive appropriate ownership, escalation, and resolution.
- Promote secure-by-design and shift-left security practices, including code scanning, dependency scanning, threat modeling, and security testing.
- Coordinate vulnerability remediation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, containers, APIs, and third-party software.
- Coordinate emergency Sprint work for actively exploited or zero-day vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention.
- Ensure remediation activities include validation, retesting, documentation, and evidence of closure.
- Identify recurring vulnerability patterns and drive root-cause corrective actions rather than repeated short-term fixes.
- Communicate vulnerability status, risks, dependencies, and remediation forecasts to stakeholders and leadership.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and facilitation techniques.
- Experience applying Agile practices across complex applications, multiple platforms, and diverse technology environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Experience identifying and removing delivery impediments while promoting team ownership and accountability.
- Working knowledge of modern engineering practices, automated testing, and shift-left development.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management processes, risk-rating methodologies, and remediation service-level expectations.
- Understanding of security frameworks and standards, including NIST, OWASP, and PCI DSS.
- Experience working with vulnerability scanning, application security, or work-tracking platforms.
- Ability to translate technical security findings into actionable backlog items and clear business-risk language.
- Experience coordinating vulnerability remediation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and third-party dependencies.
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