Vice President, Scrum Leader I

Vice President, Scrum Leader

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees growth and success.As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators and champions of inclusion, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance - and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Vice president, Scrum Leader to join our team. This role is located in Chennai.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• The Scrum Leader is accountable for establishing and maintaining Scrum, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization. The Scrum Leader serves the Scrum Team (Team) by: Causing removals of impediments to the Team's progress Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox Helping Teams focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• The Scrum Leader serves the Product Owner by: facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed and Providing techniques for effective product goal definition and backlog management. The Scrum Leader serves the Organization by: Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.
• Primary responsibilities include: Ensuring Scrum principles and practices are followed, Scrum team events occur, are productive and kept within timeboxes. Removing impediments identified by Teams. Tracking and resolving team dependencies. Ensuring Teams effectiveness in using Scrum. Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality. Helping Teams focus on creating increments of value for each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration goals in the context of current program objectives. Using Data driven approaches to help Teams eliminate waste, improve productivity and improve team performance. Facilitates Team level events and readiness. Helps Teams come up with Iteration Goals and PI objectives.
• Aggregate team objectives into Program Objectives. Fosters innovation and implementation of strategic solutions within regional/global, large programs. Helps in managing and optimizing the value delivery flow through the program/Business domain within a line of business. Ensures SDLC lifecycle, activities and artifacts are managed to completion, where applicable. May oversee and coach less experienced Scrum Leaders. Gets teams within programs to high performing levels by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Teaches problem solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves. Helps the teams within a program improve and take responsibility for their actions facilitates the problem-solving workshop Contributes to the achievement of related teams objectives
  

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• Relevant competencies: Agile Methodologies-Advanced / Business Process Improvement-Beginner / Cross Functional Team Leadership-Beginner / Kanban-Intermediate / Lean- Intermediate / Process Improvement-Intermediate / Scaled Frameworks-Intermediate / Scrum-Advanced / Servant Leadership- Advanced / Software Project Management-Beginner / Written and Oral Communication-Advanced
• Modified based upon local regulations/requirements.
• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required. 4-6 years of relevant experience in similar role. Previous technical experience is preferred. Experience in Scrum Master role for software development team for large initiatives. Knowledge of various Agile approaches: Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, Spotify, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games. Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc.
• Ability to learn new technology quickly, demonstrated by experience in an engineering environment.
• Ability to take ambiguous topics and translate into actionable plans working with multiple business, operational and technical stakeholders. Excellent communication and mentoring skills. Preferred to have Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM. Talent for driving change. Ability to drive consensus and resolve conflicts across multiple parties. Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of Agile methods, User Story writing, and prioritization techniques.

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• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
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• Most Just Companies, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.