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Senior Scrum Master
As a Senior Scrum Master, you will support one or more Kanban teams contributing to improve the flow of value delivery. You will act as a servant leader and coach for an agile team, educating the team in Kanban and ensuring that the agreed lean-agile process is being followed. You will help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate, assisting the team in meeting their outcomes. As a servant leader, you will enable teams to deliver via effective lean-agile practices and help them master the art of agile metrics. You will be responsible for: Helping the team embrace agile core values, adopt, and apply lean and agile principles, and implement agile practices with a focus on Kanban. Contributing directly to the creation of new value by facilitating the teams progress toward its objectives challenging the old ways of working to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow to continuously deliver value for the organization. Leading team efforts in relentless improvement helping the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitating the team retrospective. Teaching problem-solving techniques and facilitating problem-solving events. Facilitating team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective, ensuring they are productive and kept within the timebox driving collaborative and efficient development of new software functionality. Supporting the product owners and leadership to optimize the prioritization process. Supporting the forming of a high-performing team focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Facilitating and coaching the team on Kanban practices such as: Improving visualization of how work and value flows. Improving the flow of value by adopting lean principles. Defining explicit policies and ensuring they are followed. Defining and improving on WIP limits. Defining work item types and classes of services. Driving change and continuous improvements using data and metrics. Identifying bottlenecks and coaching for their removal. Maintaining JIRA health and ensuring that metrics can be pulled from JIRA. Facilitating preparation and coordination of strategic program planning and OKR alignment events. The experience you bring: Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a Scrum Master. Experience of Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile. Agile Certified Professional certifications are preferred: SAFe Release Train Engineer Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar. A driven, decisive, and effective team collaborator. Must be organized, self-motivated, highly adaptable, and have an ardent desire to embrace change. Solid teamwork and interpersonal skill. Engages daily with the team and helps them. Outstanding leadership and motivational skills - possessing a willingness to empower as well as inspire commitment and positive attitude in the team. Thinks of the big picture, beyond day-to-day activities; practices systems thinking. Comfortable presenting to & working with senior leaders. A Bachelors degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university. Pursuant to Invescos Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firms most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each others growth and development. Invescos culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
As a Senior Scrum Master, you will support one or more Kanban teams contributing to improve the flow of value delivery. You will act as a servant leader and coach for an agile team, educating the team in Kanban and ensuring that the agreed lean-agile process is being followed. You will help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate, assisting the team in meeting their outcomes. As a servant leader, you will enable teams to deliver via effective lean-agile practices and help them master the art of agile metrics. You will be responsible for: Helping the team embrace agile core values, adopt, and apply lean and agile principles, and implement agile practices with a focus on Kanban. Contributing directly to the creation of new value by facilitating the teams progress toward its objectives challenging the old ways of working to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow to continuously deliver value for the organization. Leading team efforts in relentless improvement helping the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitating the team retrospective. Teaching problem-solving techniques and facilitating problem-solving events. Facilitating team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective, ensuring they are productive and kept within the timebox driving collaborative and efficient development of new software functionality. Supporting the product owners and leadership to optimize the prioritization process. Supporting the forming of a high-performing team focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Facilitating and coaching the team on Kanban practices such as: Improving visualization of how work and value flows. Improving the flow of value by adopting lean principles. Defining explicit policies and ensuring they are followed. Defining and improving on WIP limits. Defining work item types and classes of services. Driving change and continuous improvements using data and metrics. Identifying bottlenecks and coaching for their removal. Maintaining JIRA health and ensuring that metrics can be pulled from JIRA. Facilitating preparation and coordination of strategic program planning and OKR alignment events. The experience you bring: Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a Scrum Master. Experience of Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile. Agile Certified Professional certifications are preferred: SAFe Release Train Engineer Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar. A driven, decisive, and effective team collaborator. Must be organized, self-motivated, highly adaptable, and have an ardent desire to embrace change. Solid teamwork and interpersonal skill. Engages daily with the team and helps them. Outstanding leadership and motivational skills - possessing a willingness to empower as well as inspire commitment and positive attitude in the team. Thinks of the big picture, beyond day-to-day activities; practices systems thinking. Comfortable presenting to & working with senior leaders. A Bachelors degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university. Pursuant to Invescos Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firms most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each others growth and development. Invescos culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.