Scrum Master Associate Director

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact You will have in this role:

The Scrum Master Associate Director is a servant leader with a growth mindset, responsible for facilitating squad delivery while ensuring proper governance of process. They are responsible for acting as a trusted coach, guiding the squad during ceremonies, removing impediments, and embodying Our Ways of Working. Additionally, Scrum Master takes the lead in maintaining the accuracy of, JIRA and governance artifacts in addition to promoting, improving, training, mentoring and adopting project management and scrum mastery best practices. As an Associate Director, the Principal Scrum Master is expected to be a leader on the team and in the community of Scrum Masters.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Agile Leadership and Facilitation

• Lead Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other team working sessions.
• Coach teams on Scrum, Agile principles, and effective delivery practices to improve consistency, predictability, and outcomes.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve team processes, meeting effectiveness, and overall Agile maturity.
• Adapt Agile practices as appropriate while maintaining strong governance and delivery discipline.
• As an Associate Director, serve as a leader within the Scrum Master community, providing guidance, sharing best practices, and supporting the development of other Scrum Masters.

Delivery Management

• Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and other stakeholders to ensure priorities, scope, milestones, and delivery expectations are clearly understood.
• Track sprint, release, and milestone commitments and proactively identify risks that may impact delivery.
• Maintain visibility into planned versus actual delivery, addressing gaps and escalating material concerns when appropriate.
• Help teams develop realistic delivery plans based on capacity, dependencies, technical complexity, and competing priorities.
• Coordinate activities across teams and stakeholders to support major releases and production deployments.
• Drive accountability for delivery commitments while helping teams navigate changing priorities and business needs.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies that may affect delivery.
• Ensure risks and issues have clear owners, mitigation plans, target dates, and appropriate follow-through.
• Facilitate cross-team discussions when dependencies require coordinated planning, decision-making, or escalation.
• Escalate significant delivery risks early, clearly articulating potential impact and recommended mitigation.
• Work with teams and stakeholders to resolve dependencies before they become delivery blockers.

Metrics and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and interpret delivery metrics such as velocity, sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, aging work, defects, and commitment completion.
• Use metrics and delivery trends to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate data-driven conversations with teams and stakeholders rather than simply reporting metrics.
• Identify recurring delivery challenges and facilitate root-cause analysis to determine sustainable improvements.
• Ensure improvement actions identified through retrospectives and other forums are tracked through completion.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Provide clear, concise, and timely delivery updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Communicate milestone status, risks, dependencies, key decisions, and required actions.
• Facilitate alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Risk, and other partner teams.
• Maintain effective communication between individual squads and broader programs or strategic initiatives.
• Support leadership reporting, governance forums, and delivery reviews as required.
• Navigate competing priorities and facilitate constructive conversations to drive alignment and timely decision-making.

Team Coaching and Development

• Coach teams on effective Agile behaviors, collaboration, accountability, and ways of working.
• Partner with Product Owners to strengthen backlog quality, prioritization, refinement, and readiness.
• Help teams resolve delivery challenges and facilitate constructive discussions when priorities, ownership, or responsibilities are unclear.
• Mentor and support Scrum Masters, sharing practical Agile delivery practices and lessons learned across teams.
• Promote consistent Agile delivery practices while recognizing where teams may require different approaches based on maturity, complexity, and business needs.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Working knowledge of agile methodology
• Understanding of the end-to-end Institutional post trade Derivatives lifecycle highly desirable
• Experience with similar business/application messaging systems and protocols (e.g., SQL, MQ, Sftp, MS azure, XLST) an advantage

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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