Technical Scrum Lead, Specialist
About the position At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best. How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Responsibilities
- Provides insight on best practices for high performing teams in the delivery of technology-related product or projects, ensuring team actions are aligned with project goals.
- Facilitates planning, team learning, and assists adaptation of processes to ensure the quality of team solutions.
- Encourages a continuous learning environment to strengthen the team's understanding of Agile/Scrum concepts and principles as they relate to technical capabilities.
- Applies methodology that supports the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into technology-related product development.
- Works with product owners and management to define and prioritize technology-related outcomes. Identifies trade-offs between short and long term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and product owner.
- Ensures the application of agile frameworks to the development process to increase effectiveness of technology-related product development or architecture.
- Leads daily scrum meetings, iteration reviews, and maintains backlogs.
- Identifies and may remove roadblocks to technology-related product development or architecture.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
- Minimum of three years related work experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Computer Science or Engineering experience preferred.
- Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred.
- Financial Services and technical experience preferred.
- Scrum/Agile Certification strongly preferred.
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