Senior Scrum Leader - Enterprise Transformation

BNY; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader to join its Enterprise Transformation team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role focuses on establishing Scrum practices, removing impediments, and coaching teams to deliver high-value increments within timeboxes.

The candidate will drive stakeholder collaboration, backlog management, and empirical planning for complex environments, while mentoring junior Scrum leaders to build high-performing teams across DevOps, QA, architecture, and UX domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8-10 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably with previous technical experience.
• Experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams on large initiatives and knowledge of Agile approaches including Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, and Spotify.
• Proficiency with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies in an engineering environment.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive change, build consensus, and resolve conflicts across multiple parties.
• Preferred Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, and SAFe SSM.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain Scrum practices, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice within the Scrum Team and the organization.
• Remove impediments to the Team’s progress and ensure all Scrum events take place, are productive, and kept within timeboxes.
• Coach Teams in self-management, cross-functionality, and focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, support product goal definition and backlog management, and help establish empirical product planning for complex environments.
• Track and resolve team dependencies, support problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making to enable programs to meet expected outcomes.
• Foster innovation and continuous improvement to increase team productivity and quality of deliverables, integrating DevOps, QA, Architecture, UX, and customer-driven agile strategies.
• Mentor less experienced Scrum Leaders and promote high-performing teams through coaching and development techniques.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

SAFe

Kanban

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader to join its Enterprise Transformation team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role focuses on establishing Scrum practices, removing impediments, and coaching teams to deliver high-value increments within timeboxes.

The candidate will drive stakeholder collaboration, backlog management, and empirical planning for complex environments, while mentoring junior Scrum leaders to build high-performing teams across DevOps, QA, architecture, and UX domains.