Advance Scrum Master

intelliflo is a global business that welcomes bold ideas and all points of view. Doing what matters inspires us, and we believe that we grow best – as people and businesses - by working together and always striving to get better without fearing failure.

We’re not looking for a ‘culture fit’. We want you to bring your unique skills and perspectives and add to our culture, not conform to it. This isn’t about finding the person who fits in; we want people who stand out.

Who is intelliflo?

Sound financial advice has the power to transform lives and should be accessible to the many, not the few. intelliflo widens access to financial advice through leading technology that powers the advisory experience.

We use open software architectures and unmatched industry experience to simplify a complex digital landscape and help advisors flourish and grow. Our solutions support over 30,000 financial advisors globally, who represent over three million households with over USD 1 trillion assets.

intelliflo operates independently under its own brand as a wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco, a global leader in the asset management industry.

Job Description

As an Advance Scrum Master you need to help in building great teams in the organization. Help teams in facilitating the scrum events, unblock the issues team is facing, motivate the teams and escalate the issues on timely manner. Work with different stack holders and provide the progress. Set all communication channels across teams and stakeholders. Meteor the team in various scrum practices and improve the efficiency of the team.

As a scrum master in the Digital wealth engineering org, you will primarily be involved in the below areas:

• Manages 2/3 Teams which are well settled
• Conducts Scrum Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Retros, Sprint Demo etc
• Coordinate and support dependency management across other scrum teams on the Agile Release Train in flight
• Be an advocate and champion of the principles of agile and scrum within the team. Fostering an environment of continuous improvement, close cooperation across teams and self-organization.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint – i.e. build quality into the team execution
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Work with product owners to manage the scrum team’s backlog and any new requests
• Work with the teams to plan their capacity and to understand their velocity and how it needs to be taken into consideration for downstream iterations
• Assist the teams in preparation for quarterly program increment planning and support the teams in agreeing their iteration objectives
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts
• Coach team members in the intelliflo Agile framework, in self-management, cross-functional development, best practices and embedding scrum values
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the functionality they build to support the product
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)
• Measure and optimize the workflow of the teams
• Outstanding organizational skills (Manage & Own different Org initiatives Streams)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Ability to teach, mentor and coach team members and product owner
• Come up with various process frameworks/dashboards, tools & techniques for org maturity assessment
  
  

Key Competencies

The Experience You Bring

• Strong in scrum/Safe fundamentals.
• Can understand and empathize the issues team is facing.
• Ability to stand for the team and escalate the blockers until it is resolved.
• Reflect the team’s behavior and help them to improve.
• Excellent, precise communication skills, being able to clearly identify problems at hand and with explanations to be provided.
• Being able to stay on top of the big picture and view interconnectivity of tasks and solutions.
• Ability to develop trust with various internal and external facing teams and clients.
• Maintain a broad understanding of our systems, customers and business goals.
• Ability to drive & influence items in a matrix org setup
  
  

Professional Background Experience

• 8+ years of overall experience.
• 5+ years experience as a scrum master.
• Worked as BA or Senior software engineer or QA or other allied technical roles.
• Kanban / Agile project management expertise
  
  

Good To Have

• Financial domain expertise, particularly, familiarity with US financial markets. Familiarity with US financial planning / wealth management is a big plus.
  
  

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

intelliflo’s workplace model is designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection when possible. Most teams within our England office work 1-day a week in the office, however, most of our teams within the United States and India operate in a remote working pattern. Certain limitations apply. Please consult with your Talent Acquisition contact during the interviewing process.

What’s in it for you?

intelliflo offers industry-leading Total Rewards that help you thrive – in and out of the office, including competitive pay, retirement savings plans, generous health and wellness benefits, and much more.

Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion

Our aspiration is for our workforce to continually reflect the diversity of people and perspectives in today’s evolving society, which we believe is fundamental to our efforts to widen access to financial advice. intelliflo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all job applicants and employees. Individuals seeking employment at intelliflo are considered without regards to race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, military or veteran status; or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.