Scrum Manager - 3057839

Job#: 3057839 Job Description: Scrum ManagerPosition Summary The Scrum Manager partners closely with the Product/Experience Owner and cross-functional technology teams to facilitate Sprint events, strengthen Agile delivery practices, and ensure squads achieve agreed-upon product and Sprint goals. This role promotes self-organization, accountability, collaborative decision-making, and continuous improvement. The Scrum Manager also plays an important role in coordinating vulnerability remediation efforts across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, Infrastructure, and other enterprise teams. Key ResponsibilitiesAgile & Scrum Leadership - Partner with the Product/Experience Owner to plan and facilitate Sprint events and promote effective team collaboration. - Drive self-organization, accountability, continuous improvement, and a focus on outcomes. - Monitor and improve Scrum processes to increase overall delivery effectiveness. - Identify, escalate, and help remove impediments or external distractions impacting the development team. - Keep squads focused on agreed Sprint goals and priorities across product and Sprint backlogs. - Coordinate across departments and enterprise teams to manage dependencies and promote Agile best practices. - Apply Agile and Scrum practices across complex applications, platforms, and technology environments. - Communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, and priorities to stakeholders and leadership. Engineering & Delivery Practices - Support engineering best practices and the long-term integrity and maintainability of applications. - Promote shift-left development practices, including early quality validation, automated testing, pair programming, and mob programming when appropriate. - Partner with Engineering teams to continuously improve development and delivery processes. Vulnerability Management & Security - Integrate security and vulnerability remediation into Sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release-readiness activities. - Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, business impact, and regulatory requirements. - Track remediation commitments, vulnerability aging, risk exceptions, and overdue findings through closure. - Ensure critical and high-risk vulnerabilities receive appropriate ownership, escalation, and resolution. - Promote secure-by-design and shift-left security practices, including code scanning, dependency scanning, threat modeling, and security testing. - Coordinate vulnerability remediation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, containers, APIs, and third-party software. - Coordinate emergency Sprint work for actively exploited or zero-day vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention. - Ensure remediation activities include validation, retesting, documentation, and evidence of closure. - Identify recurring vulnerability patterns and drive root-cause corrective actions rather than repeated short-term fixes. - Communicate vulnerability status, risks, dependencies, and remediation forecasts to stakeholders and leadership. Qualifications Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and facilitation techniques. Experience applying Agile practices across complex applications, multiple platforms, and diverse technology environments. Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and cross-functional coordination skills. Experience identifying and removing delivery impediments while promoting team ownership and accountability. Working knowledge of modern engineering practices, automated testing, and shift-left development. Familiarity