What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Janus Henderson?
We are a leading independent global asset manager, dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for our clients through a highly diversified range of actively-managed products. We are truly global, supporting our individual and institutional investors across a range of products, encompassing equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. Our high-energy and collaborative culture at Janus Henderson helps our client achieve their goals and ensures that our people love the place they work.
The department
The Global Technology department plays a crucial role in supporting the success of the business. We are responsible for developing and implementing state-of-the-art software and hardware maintenance to support our fund management, trading, distribution and operational areas with secure, stable and resilient technology platforms.
Overview of the role
Janus Henderson has embraced an Agile framework for change development and implementation. This agile framework is being used to transversally enhance the release cycle, leading to a more efficient and scalable environment.
As the Scrum Master/Kanban coach you will be primarily responsible for working with several teams in building upon a new Scrum/Kanban framework. This will require facilitating key Scrum events for the team while mentoring them on the process and purpose of each to grow knowledge and understanding of Agile concepts. In this role you will be responsible for aligning to transversal scrum deliverables, ensuring changes can be delivered and working closely with the development teams to ensure that impediments are cleared. The role will not only need excellent problem-solving skills, but you should also be able to see the strategic impacts of any cross-team dependencies and escalate where necessary. The role will require strong communication and leadership skills as regular reporting with senior stakeholders is expected globally with core impacted teams being in the US and UK.
Duties and responsibilities
You will:
- Follow JHI framework and standards for Scrum/Kanban
- Raise standards through mentoring existing Scrum team on standard methodologies
- Facilitate all Scrum events for the team, including Sprint Review
- Facilitate backlog refinement sessions between the Product Owner and Development Team
- Work with Agile Release Manager to provide a single functional release per sprint cycle
- Understand and inspire change through the scrum team. Work with Release Manager, Product Owners and other Scrum Masters to prioritize and manage associated risk and dependencies
- Implement standardized scrum reporting
- Lead teams in understanding their capacity and using it to plan
- Coach Product Owners and Product Managers in backlog management and prioritization techniques, and engagement with partners
- Perform trend analysis and recommendations for improvements
- Develop and promote a culture of reflection and continuous improvement
- Advance concerns requiring management support
- Scrum Master activities of sprint planning, daily scrum and retrospective as needed for non-development work
- Identify and co-ordinate project critical paths and identify/remove bottlenecks; identify and track issues and risks through to resolution
- Promote team accountability at development and Scrum/Kanban team levels
- Create, maintain and report high-level program/project and project management maturity, standard methodologies and tools; with an emphasis on moving toward Agile
- Can support multiple products/teams
- Carry out additional duties as assigned
Technical skills and qualifications
Essential:
- 5 years of Scrum Master related experience
- CSM or A-CSM certifications required
- Experience managing virtual and global distributed teams
- Experience working in a matrixed environment
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
- Experience working with multiple teams
- Experience managing multiple scrums at a time
Advantageous:
- Experience in Asset Management
- Experience with cloud data platform implementations and vendor implementations
- Proven ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, and projects in a demanding environment
- Experience of working in a middle and back office outsourced environment
- Experience of delivering change related to market data
Competencies required
In addition to putting clients first, acting like an owner, and succeeding as a team, the competencies for this role include:
- Strong leader equally comfortable facing off to partners and directing service providers and internal teams
- Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills, demonstrating the ability to communicate information technology concepts to non-technology personnel
- Self-motivation and enthusiastic approach – a completer-finisher able to work on their own initiative with a focus and commitment to delivery
- Effective time management / planning – manages personal workload effectively, sets realistic and achievable targets and delivers to those targets
- Problem ownership – takes responsibility for identified issues and works to resolve in a pragmatic manner
- Client focused, committed to excellence, strong attention to detail and a great teammate
- Taking ownership for successful delivery
Ongoing competence in the role to be assessed, in line with applicable regulatory requirements, by:
- Annual performance appraisal
- Completion of all assigned compliance training
Compliance requirements
At a minimum the role will require you to:
- Place the interest of Janus Henderson’s Clients first, act in accordance with TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) principles
- Understand and follow laws and regulations applicable for your role, seeking the help of your supervising manager or Compliance if additional guidance is required
- Understand and abide by all Janus Henderson policies applicable to your role, and seek support/guidance of the policy owner guidance when required
- You are ultimately accountable for your actions and responsible for seeking further information on any or all of the above as necessary
Compensation Information
The base salary range for this position is $125,000 - $135,000. This range is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.
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Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.
Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes; competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.
Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).
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