Senior Scrum Master

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

SS&C Blue Prism

SS&C Blue Prism allows organizations to deliver transformational business value via our intelligent automation platform. We make products with one aim in mind - to improve experiences for people. By connecting people and digital workers you can use the right resource, every time, for the best customer and business outcomes.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Sr. Scrum Master to join our SS&C Blue Prism Agility team. You’ll be reporting to the Head of Agility, working alongside other SSMs, supporting up to 5 Scrum Masters and up to 20 agile delivery teams, in a work environment centred on transparency, empathy, trust and encouragement. We are striving for organisational agility underpinned by an agile culture and mindset while making best use of value adding Agile frameworks and practices.

Your Responsibilities

• Your key skill will be in coaching the Stakeholders, Leaders, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams in the agile mindset and the reasons behind the practices and processes of Scrum and, more broadly, organisational agility.
• You will be primarily encouraging your team of teams to self-organise with a focus on delivering value with every iteration.
• You will be the Scrum Master for one team, as well as the Line Manager and Lead for several Scrum Masters, each with up to 5 teams of their own.
• You’ll be engaging with people, providing an open and free dialogue between team members and line managers.
• You will embrace feedback loops and encourage those around you to do the same.
• Strong Scrum Master experience and in particular of the stances a keenness to embody the Manager stance and provide effective leadership from the front.
• Enabling the team to drive their own continuous improvement and where appropriate, shine a light on the blind spots teams may encounter in this regard.
• Guiding the team on facilitation of their own ceremonies, whilst providing valuable input and coaching on how to improve and get more value out of the ceremonies.

Your Experience

• Proven experience working as a Senior Scrum Master/ Agile Coach to multiple (up to 10) teams in demanding project environments.
• Proven experience coaching, mentoring, training and developing Scrum Masters and Agile Team Facilitators in Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience working with demanding stakeholders and leadership.
• Scrum Master / Kanban/ Agile Coaching certifications – Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, ICAgile preferred but not essential.
• Knowledge / experience of Jira, Confluence and Agile Metrics.
• Hybrid & waterfall experience.
• Scaling experience essential, LeSS preferred but not essential.
• Demonstrable experience driving an agenda for organisational agility that promotes the agile culture and mindset holistically, transcending organisational boundaries.

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law).

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.