Scrum Master

Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: Atlanta, GA

Position Description

This position is located at the client site in Atlanta, GA.

Your Future Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for regulatory reporting initiatives.

• Partner with Product Owners, Regulatory Reporting teams, Finance, Risk, and Technology stakeholders to prioritize work and align sprint objectives with regulatory reporting deadlines.

• Coordinate delivery of enhancements supporting financial and regulatory reporting, including Call Reports, FR Y-9C, FR Y-14, CECL, Basel, liquidity, capital, and other regulatory reporting requirements, as applicable.

• Manage cross-functional dependencies across data, reporting, finance, risk, compliance, and technology teams to support the timely delivery of regulatory reporting capabilities.

• Remove delivery impediments and proactively resolve issues impacting sprint commitments, reporting schedules, and regulatory milestones.

• Track sprint progress, team velocity, release readiness, and key delivery metrics while providing transparent status reporting to program leadership.

• Coordinate backlog management, release planning, and production implementation activities supporting regulatory reporting enhancements and defect remediation.

• Support the delivery of data integration, reporting, reconciliation, and controls initiatives required to improve regulatory reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.

• Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, development teams, quality engineering, data engineering, and regulatory reporting subject-matter experts.

• Monitor project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating potential impacts to regulatory reporting schedules or compliance obligations.

• Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and servant leadership while ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and delivery standards.

• Support audit readiness by coordinating documentation, sprint artifacts, traceability, and evidence required for internal audits and regulatory examinations.

• Ensure delivery activities align with internal controls, SOX requirements, enterprise governance standards, and applicable financial services regulatory reporting obligations.

• Coordinate post-release reviews, production support activities, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance reporting quality, stability, and delivery performance.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of Scrum Master or Agile delivery experience supporting enterprise technology initiatives.

• 5+ years of banking experience.

• 5+ years of experience delivering data engagements.

• Experience leading Agile teams within financial services or banking environments.

• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.

• Strong understanding of project planning, sprint management, backlog grooming, and dependency management.

• Experience using Agile management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or Rally.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting regulatory reporting, finance, risk, or compliance initiatives.

• Knowledge of banking regulatory reporting processes, including FR Y-9C, Call Reports, CCAR, CECL, and Basel.

• Experience supporting large-scale banking conversions or transformation programs.

• Scrum Master certification, such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent.

• Experience working with distributed and offshore Agile delivery teams.

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