Scrum Master

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Build, coach, and support a newly formed Agile team focused on Fraud Data Transformation initiatives.
• Manage sprint execution, team capacity, velocity planning, and backlog refinement activities.
• Identify, track, and resolve dependencies, risks, and impediments across teams and stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Owners, business leaders, and technology teams to prioritize work and deliver business value.
• Provide clear status updates, risk escalation, and executive-level communications.
• Drive Agile best practices and foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Scrum Master experience leading enterprise technology teams.
• Strong expertise in Agile delivery using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Experience building or leading newly formed Scrum teams.
• Proven stakeholder management, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience managing dependencies, risks, impediments, and escalations.
• Proficiency with Jira, including backlog management and Agile reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with executives and cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Banking, financial services, or fintech industry experience.
• Fraud, financial crimes, or risk management program experience.
• Data transformation, data migration, or data modernization project experience.
• Instant Payments, RTP, or FedNow experience.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.
• SAFe Agile framework experience.
• Confluence or other Agile collaboration tool experience.