AVP, Scrum Master II

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!

LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 19,000 financial advisors, 800 institution-based investment programs and 450 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to objective guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

PMO serves as the Agile Portfolio Management Office (PMO) for the technology organization at LPL. The purpose of PMO is to enable agile best practices and drive planning and execution activities that unlock the flow of value and create transparency into capacity across the organization.  PMO supports Agile product delivery, by providing services to business partners and Agile Delivery Teams. PMO manages a suite of services that includes support, delivery, implementation, and monitoring to ensure the efficient execution of key initiatives for internal customers.

Job Overview:

The Scrum Master II is responsible for providing Agile facilitation and coaching to 1-2 Agile teams to ensure the teams adopt and maintain high performing Agile delivery practices, and realize the value intended.

This role supports the following PMO service offerings:

• Planning & Time Management

• Risk & Issue Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Governance

• Benefits Management

Responsibilities:

The Scrum Master II works closely with Delivery Coordinators, and Release Train Engineers. This role reports directly to the Solution Train Engineer.

• Ensure the team follows standard Agile processes while identifying opportunities for improvement.

• Facilitate team in defining Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and then ensures those agreements are upheld.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily stand-up (scrum) meetings, retrospectives, demos, backlog grooming / refinement, backlog sizing, sprint planning and team engagement.

• Identify and help to remove impediments, escalate impediments to the product and solutions manager, recommend ways to resolve impediments, and influence leadership to act on these recommendations.

• Help team inspect and adapt process through retrospectives, data / metrics tracking, and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow.

• Coaching the team to higher levels of performance.

• Assist with internal and external communication and improving transparency by creating visible information radiators (burn-downs, velocity chart, etc.), dashboards, and demos.

• Provide metric reports to assist in product roadmap planning.

• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work directly.

• Observe team interactions and use emotional intelligence to discuss observations in a safe, trusting environment.

• Support product planning by participating in release planning discussions.

• Support execution through understanding of priority and sequencing required to deliver efficiently.

• Guide team in commitment making and sprint completion.

• Hold team (Product, Development, QA, and team members) accountable for delivery commitments.

• Help team identify when commitments are at risk and assist team with solutioning to ensure commitments are met.

• Be an agile subject matter expert and provide strategic influence with the product / business and other engineering organizations.

• Ensure team’s backlogs are always sufficiently full (at minimum 3-4 sprints worth of work defined).

• Practice servant-leadership and promote learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, communicating information, and providing advice to drive efforts forward.

• What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking f