Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for an Agile Scrum Master to work in Fidelity Charitable's Agile Office in Durham, NC!

The Role

As a Scrum Master, you will be a member of a multi-functional agile team within Fidelity Charitable. You will guide and advise teams on Agile values, practices and processes to ensure that the team is fully functional, productive, and passionate about the value they're delivering.

The Expertise you have

• Proven understanding of Agile and lean practices, processes, and artifacts
• Practical and related experiences in being a servant leader to multiple agile teams concurrently
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent, and at least 5 years of experience

The Purpose of This Role

As a Scrum Master, you will work directly in a team to advise and oversee performance against agile values, practices and processes. Working with the product owner, you will support the work of the team by maintaining the backlog and facilitating agile ceremonies like stand ups, planning and retrospectives. You will monitor team performance using data dashboards and partner with the team to identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter.

The Skills You Bring

• Your ability to influence behavior without having organizational hierarchy
• Able to manage a constantly evolving environment
• Your ability to brainstorm with the team on solutions to address challenges and roadblocks
• Your superb communication and people-interaction skills
• Your organized and focused nature
• Your continuous improvement mentality

The Value You Deliver

• Encouraging Agile behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting the overall team performance and effectiveness
• Identifying team improvement opportunities and looking externally for standard methodologies to support continuous improvement
• Running and coordinating logistics for Agile ceremonies and practices, e.g., backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Ensuring all work is supervised in the backlog and accurately balanced across team members
• Maintaining and updating the team's process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear communications to partners
• Driving a collaborative and encouraging team culture through team building and engagement practices

COVID work policy

Safety is our top priority. Once we can be together in person with fewer safety measures, this role will be moved to our dynamic working approach. You’ll be spending some of your time onsite depending on the nature and needs of your role.

Dynamic Working – Post Pandemic

Our aim is to combine the best of working offsite with coming together in person. For most teams this means a consistent balance of working from home and office that supports the needs of your role, experience level, and working style.

Your success and growth is important to us, so you’ll want to enjoy the benefits of coming together in person – face to face learning and training, quality time with your manager and teammates, building your career network, making friends, and taking full advantage of cultural and social experiences Fidelity provides for you.

Company Overview

Fidelity TalentSource is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s supportive and collaborative culture while expanding your skill set and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource. Apply today at FTSJobs.com.

We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, please contact our HR team at HR@ ftsjobs.com.

Information about Fidelity Investments

At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.

Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.