Scrum Master Lead

The Team leader will be a key member of the of Digital Technologies applications team, a dedicated team of highly skilled technical resources supporting the Advice Wealth Management business on a 24x7 basis. The position provides an unparalleled opportunity to become a valuable member of our global technology team supporting a very dynamic and rapidly growing global Asset management business. You will be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards individuals for their contributions. You will work with a group of talented people who share a passion for high quality work that is in the best interest of our clients.

This position will provide you with opportunities to make your mark within the team. If you are driven to succeed and prepared to meet the ever-changing needs of the financial services industry, you are ready for a career at Ameriprise.

Key Responsibilities

Understand and implement Agile based methodologies within the organization.

Manage relationships through effective stakeholder engagement and collaborative problem solving, working at all levels and with internal stakeholders to achieve business objectives.

Leading, training, and coaching the organization in Agile and Scrum adoption.

Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization.

Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.

Agile engagement process by identifying requirements, coordinating schedules, communicating deliverables, tracking progress and delivering successful results.

Inform and align decision making for information technology planning, policy and operations to meet business objectives.

Facilitating Scrum Events (Refinement, Planning, Daily Scrum, Review & Retrospective).

Fostering Team's self-organization and help team to maintain information radiators.

Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work in coordination with different stakeholders and assist with development of management action plans.

Tracking stories and managing sprint of the organization initiatives.

Assess efficacy, document and report gaps to stakeholders. Provide remediation guidance and prepare management reports to track remediation activities.

Ability to communicate a deep understanding of the business and a broad knowledge of existing agile evaluation practices is expected in this role.

Helping Product Owners to define Product Vision, To define near term & long term initiatives by conducting road-mapping.

Ensuring team has productive work environment, coaching on Prioritization & Estimation techniques.

Preferred Key Skills

Good knowledge of Jira, Service Now tool and other scrum tools.

Exemplifies and promotes agile values and principles.

Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.

Possess strong oral and written communication skills along with refined presentation skills and the ability to work with other departments and varying levels of management, including senior leadership.

Foundational knowledge of Cloud Computing Technologies (AWS and Microsoft Azure).

Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques.

Be able to engage at all levels of the organization to organize, drive and communicate results.

Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.

Qualifications

Familiarity with configuration management tools such as ServiceNow CMDB, DevOps concepts.

Prior experience with technology infrastructure projects involving datacenter, server, storage, network components.

B.S. in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, related degree or equivalent work experience.

Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.

Intermediate working knowledge of MS Office applications, including but limited not limited to Outlook, word, and excel.

Ability to demonstrate a strong understanding of various compliance and regulatory areas or the risk exposure, risk reporting and handling of risk events.

About Our Company

Ameriprise India LLP has been providing client based financial solutions to help clients plan and achieve their financial objectives for 125 years. We are a U.S. based financial planning company headquartered in Minneapolis with a global presence. The firm’s focus areas include Asset Management and Advice, Retirement Planning and Insurance Protection. Be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards you for your contributions and work with other talented individuals who share your passion for doing great work. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to make your mark at the office and a difference in your community. So if you're talented, driven and want to work for a strong ethical company that cares, take the next step and create a career at Ameriprise India LLP.

Ameriprise India LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time

Timings

(2:00p-10:30p)

India Business Unit

AWMPO AWMP&S President's Office

Job Family Group

Technology