Scrum Master

Kestra • Tempe, AZ

4d

About The Position

Kestra Holdings offers industry-leading wealth management platforms for independent wealth management professionals nationwide. Kestra is dedicated to empowering independent financial professionals—including traditional and hybrid RIAs—to grow their businesses and deliver exceptional client service. We combine advanced business management technology with personalized consulting to provide unmatched scale, efficiency, and support. Our advisor-focused culture is built on innovation and advocacy, enabling advisors to offer comprehensive securities and investment advisory solutions to their clients. Lead with Purpose. Partner with Impact. This is an exciting role at Kestra Financial that will give you a great opportunity to achieve a set of high visibility and business critical initiatives. Your primary focus is to guide performance, collaboration, and execution while working constructively within the team and with members of the organization.

Requirements

• Must have 5+ years’ Scrum Master experience.
• Must have 3+ years’ experience working with distributed teams spanning multiple time zones, with a proven track record of success working with these team models.
• 10+ years of overall technology experience.
• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts.
• Scrum and Kanban experience, working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Prior programming experience is a huge plus.
• Experience taking business requirements and writing technical requirements using BDD.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple software development teams maintaining Kestra’s Advisor Platform, following Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• Use Agile ceremonies that produce the benefits intended by the Agile framework, including planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams to provide high-quality products using inspect and adapt cycles.
• Accelerate the learning and growth of one or more distributed Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices, and guiding them to more predictable delivery of high-quality products.
• Oversee the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that we need to engage in planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and measure the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.
• Deep understanding of Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) with a strong focus on metrics, dashboards and reporting
• Hands-on experience working with Agile methodologies on large-scale, technically complex projects with distributed teams spanning multiple time zones
• Significant experience with Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
• Must guide decisions and be able to deal with projects and deadlines
• Manage full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence.
• Help with dependency management and cross team coordination, with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture within teams.
• Conduct all Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospectives, using online collaboration tools.
• Facilitate ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Mentor Product Owners and Scrum team members in Agile practices and continuous improvement
• Foster team responsibility, self-accountability, and transparency
• Use metrics to identify trends and lead process improvements for underperforming teams
• Promote transparency through healthy communications and data integrity while adhering to Agile standards

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide)
• 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package
• Work in a supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence
• Help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence
• Opportunities for training, development, and long-term growth within the firm
• Tuition reimbursement for qualified expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees