Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader

BNY Mellon

$150K — $180K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8-10 years relevant experience in a similar role.
  • Experience as a Scrum Master on large software initiatives.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies including Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, and Spotify.
  • Proficient in Agile practices such as User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, and Automated Testing.
  • Familiar with tools like Jira and Confluence, with a quick learning ability for new technologies.
  • Strong communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and uphold Scrum practices within the team.
  • Remove obstacles to facilitate team progress and ensure effective Scrum events.
  • Coach teams on self-management and delivering high-value increments.
  • Facilitate stakeholder collaboration and empirical product planning.
  • Track and resolve team dependencies while supporting root cause analysis.
  • Promote innovation and continuous improvement to enhance team productivity.
  • Mentor less experienced Scrum Leaders to build high-performing teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible global resources and tools for personal and professional growth.
  • Focus on health and personal resilience development.
  • Generous paid leaves including paid volunteer time.
  • Access to 401(k) plan and various medical benefits.
  • Comprehensive wellness programs and family support initiatives.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader to join our Enterprise Transformation team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
  • Establish and maintain Scrum practices, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice within the Scrum Team and the organization.
  • Remove impediments to the Team's progress and ensure all Scrum events take place, are productive, and kept within timeboxes.
  • Coach Teams in self-management, cross-functionality, and focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
  • Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, support product goal definition and backlog management, and help establish empirical product planning for complex environments.
  • Track and resolve team dependencies, support problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making to enable programs to meet expected outcomes.
  • Foster innovation and continuous improvement to increase team productivity and quality of deliverables, integrating DevOps, QA, Architecture, UX, and customer-driven agile strategies.
  • Mentor less experienced Scrum Leaders and promote high-performing teams through coaching and development techniques.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 8-10 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably with previous technical experience.
  • Experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams on large initiatives and knowledge of Agile approaches including Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, and Spotify.
  • Proficiency with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
  • Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies in an engineering environment.
  • Excellent communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive change, build consensus, and resolve conflicts across multiple parties.
  • Preferred Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, and SAFe SSM.


Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee's eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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