Senior Associate, Scrum Leader

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system, we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Associate, Scrum Leader to join our team. This role is located in Manchester (hybrid).

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Build and coach high performing teams and ensure continuous value delivery.
• Ensures the development process “Scrum” is understood and enacted.
• Oversees the POM team-level process and coaches the Pod team members; facilitates transparency, inspection and adaptation.
• Keep team organized and effectively facilitate agile meetings to ensure full Pod team engagement (stand-up, review, retrospective and planning meetings).
• Removes development impediments (e.g., Pod team communication barriers, logistic challenges).
• Enables close cooperation across all Pod team members and foster collaboration with other roles such as Release Train Engineer.
• Shields the Pod team from external interference and ensures the Pod team is functional and focused on the sprint goal(s).
• Fosters self-sufficiency of the Pod team and is not a crutch for the Pod team.
• Ensures continuous improvement of the pod’s maturity, by implementation of agile metrics to effectively track, report pod progress and adopt best practices.
• Implements standards set by the POM Agile Practice and ensure adherence to BNY audit/compliance requirements.
• Actively engages in Agile Practice community events and contribute to the knowledge base.
• Ensure delivery of a quality increment, JIRA hygiene is maintained and reflects actual progress.
• Collaborate with RTE – for Group and Engineering lead – for POD (accountable) for Group and POD release management activities.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Deep knowledge and experience with agile ways of working.
• Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Professional Scrum Master.
• Confident and skilled at identifying and navigating through roadblocks / impediments.
• Unafraid to “go to bat” for the team.
• Communicates openly and effectively, resolving and managing conflicts while maintaining a positive environment.
• Demonstrates leadership traits such as integrity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to adapt to change.
• Inspires and motivates others, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Exhibits creative problem-solving skills, ensuring continuous improvement and innovation.
• Strong collaborator, ensuring key stakeholders are covered and there is continuous progress being made towards sprint goal and group OKRs.
• Risk Management, facilitates risks identification, mitigation and monitoring.
• Adaptable to change, active listener, open for new ideas by ensuring all the points of view are heard and avoid becoming fixated on a single approach.
• Promotes self-organization, empowerment, innovative thinking and self-development.
• High-energy and passionate outlook, with an ability to influence those around them.
• Passion for innovation and a “can do” attitude.
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the team.
• Embraces continuous learning.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024.
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024.
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024.
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024.
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024.
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024.
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023.

Our Benefits and Rewards: BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.