Scrum Leader / Senior Scrum Master – Digital

Job Role: Scrum Leader / Senior Scrum Master – Digital

Location: NYC, NY (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term

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Must have domain: Banking, financial services, or a similarly regulated industry

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Leader to guide agile delivery within our Digital Banking division. In this role, you’ll do much more than run ceremonies—you will navigate the complexity of banking regulations, manage dependencies across legacy and modern platforms, and foster a culture of transparency and continuous improvement. You’ll serve 1–2 cross-functional squads focused on digital channels, payments, lending, or core banking modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Servant Leadership & Delivery

· Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives) with a relentless focus on delivering incremental value.

· Shield the team from external distractions to maintain flow, while ensuring adherence to the bank’s risk and control frameworks.

· Track and communicate sprint progress using tools like Jira and Confluence, making blockers, risks, and dependencies immediately visible.

Banking-Specific Agility

· Partner with Product Owners to ensure the Product Backlog reflects not only customer value but also mandatory regulatory, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOX, KYC, GDPR).

· Coordinate release planning and change management activities, aligning with enterprise release calendars, freeze periods, and governance tollgates.

· Embed non-functional requirements (security, resilience, audit logging) directly into the Definition of Done.

Risk, Compliance & Stakeholder Management

· Proactively identify and escalate delivery risks, contributing to RAID logs and ensuring mitigation plans are in place.

· Support internal and external audits by providing clear evidence of sprint deliverables, testing outcomes, and sign-off processes.

· Build strong relationships with Compliance, Legal, InfoSec, and Operations teams to unblock dependencies that require cross-department alignment.

Continuous Improvement & Coaching

· Coach the team and the wider organization on agile values specific to a regulated environment—moving from “process compliance” to real agility.

· Use metrics (cycle time, throughput, escaped defects) to drive data-based improvement conversations rather than velocity tracking alone.

· Mentor junior Scrum Masters and contribute to the internal Agile Community of Practice.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

· 5 years as a dedicated Scrum Master or Agile Coach, with at least 2 years in banking, financial services, or a similarly regulated industry.

· Certified Scrum Master (CSM or equivalent); additional certifications like SAFe Agilist, PSM II, or LeSS are a strong plus.

· Demonstrated ability to apply agile principles while respecting regulatory guardrails—you know when to adapt process without compromising auditability.

· Hands-on experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).

· Exceptional communication skills and the ability to facilitate difficult discussions with technical teams and senior business stakeholders alike.

Desirable

· Knowledge of specific banking domains: Retail/Consumer Banking, Wealth Management, Payments (ISO 20022, SWIFT, Faster Payments), or Core Banking transformation.

· Experience with scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS) in a banking context.

· Understanding of DevOps practices in a bank (CI/CD within change-controlled environments, automated testing, environment management).

Success Looks Like

· Predictable sprint deliveries that meet the bank''s quality and compliance standards without heroics.

· Reduced lead time of regulatory initiatives via better backlog transparency and cross-team collaboration.

· A measurable uplift in team health scores and employee engagement.

· Consistent, clean audit trails with zero critical findings traced back to process failures.

Thanks & Regards,

Prashant B.

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Application Management Services LLC (MWBE)

Email: prashant

Phone:  1

Address: 300 Carnegie Center, Suite 150, Princeton, NJ-08540