The Lead Scrum Master drives Agile delivery, coaches teams, manages release planning, and ensures communication of progress and impediments. They focus on maintaining a healthy backlog and balancing delivery with iteration based on customer feedback.
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 are 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.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
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 are 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.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
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 Lead Scrum Master is responsible for driving Agile delivery excellence across distributed teams, ensuring predictable outcomes and high product quality. The role oversees cross‑functional dependencies, release management, and delivery metrics to ensure execution discipline.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Agile Knowledge and expertise
- Understands Agile and relevant frameworks (e.g., scrum) to maximize the success of the squad.
- Possess a comprehensive understanding of Agile tools, techniques, principles and values and apply this knowledge to the squad.
- Coach PO and squad to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with refined user stories.
- Successfully balance delivery timeframes and continuous iteration so that customer feedback is always incorporated.
- Participate in Scrum of Scrums sessions to ensure the Squad and the others in the Tribe are aligned on priorities, dependencies and timelines.
- Coaching and Facilitation
- Provide role (PO, QA, Dev, etc.) based coaching and proactively facilitate coaching session with the squad.
- Coach the squad to consider how squad/product vision affects other squads we regularly interact with.
- Create a safe environment for all ceremonies to encourage active participation from all squad members.
- Ensure accurate and transparent communications to stakeholders with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments.
- Release Planning
- Supports Product Owner on release planning.
- Understand both the squad’s overall capacity and impediments that impact individual members of the squad. Work to create a team culture that values sustainable execution by not over-committing.
- Identify and work to resolve mindset impediments as they arise.
- Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
- Experience in Agile Development, with Scrum Master (or similar) experience
- Previous software development lifecycle experience
- Scrum Master certification a plus
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.
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