Senior Scrum Master

About the role

Kestra Holdings provides industry‑leading wealth management platforms for independent financial professionals. The company combines advanced business‑management technology with personalized consulting to deliver scale, efficiency, and support. Kestra is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support the Data, Analytics & AI Platform group, partnering with multiple Scrum and Kanban teams to improve efficiency, predictability, and collaboration across dynamic data initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain healthy backlog management, prioritization, and value‑driven delivery.
• Identify, remove, and escalate impediments, risks, and organizational barriers that impact team performance and delivery.
• Coordinate dependencies, issue resolution, and collaboration across distributed teams and multiple time zones.
• Coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles, Scrum practices, continuous improvement, and self‑organization.
• Provide leadership and coaching within the Scrum Master team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, healthy communication, and continuous learning.
• Lead and continuously improve release planning and delivery processes, enabling engineering teams to focus on execution and Product Owners to focus on business priorities.
• Use Agile metrics and performance data to identify trends, measure team effectiveness, and drive corrective actions and process improvements.
• Promote engineering best practices, including predictable delivery, automation, continuous delivery, technical debt management, and product sustainability.
• Stay current with industry practices; experiment with new techniques to improve teams’ Agile maturity and effectiveness.
• Uphold Kestra’s core values (Make it Happen, One Team, Serve) in daily interactions and delivery commitments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• 3‑5 years working with teams in a data domain, preferably with cloud‑based data platforms (e.g., Databricks) and master data management tools (e.g., Profisee).
• 10+ years of overall technology industry experience.
• Certified Scrum Master (preferred).
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, with experience operating as a Scrum Master in both frameworks.
• Strong experience with Jira or a similar issue‑tracking tool; experience with Jira Service Management is desired.
• Experience with distributed teams across multiple time zones and resolving related challenges.
• Knowledge of data lifecycle & pipelines (ingestion → transformation → consumption) and understanding of batch, streaming, and near‑real‑time delivery.
• Awareness of data quality, lineage, and governance dependencies.
• Exposure to analytics and AI/ML workflows is a plus, including supporting teams delivering data science and machine‑learning use cases.
• Experience in the financial industry and familiarity with basic financial concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1,600 employees nationwide).
• 401(k) plan and health insurance.
• Supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence.
• Opportunities to help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence.
• Training, development, and long‑term growth opportunities within the firm.
• Tuition reimbursement for qualified expenses.