Scrum Master

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Locations: Dublin, Ireland | Hybrid

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

• Lead and facilitate agile delivery practices across a cross-functional team building a financial services wealth platform
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement
• Act as a servant leader, protecting the team, removing impediments, and ensuring smooth delivery
• Coach and mentor team members in agile principles and best practices to improve team effectiveness
• Manage stakeholder communication, providing clear updates on delivery progress, risks and dependencies
• Drive continuous improvement by championing adoption of new delivery practices, methodologies and tooling
• Support coordination across geographically distributed or offshore teams to ensure alignment and delivery consistency

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM, or equivalent); actively maintains and develops agile knowledge
• Servant leadership mindset; puts the team’s effectiveness above personal agenda
• Excellent facilitation, communication and conflict-resolution skills
• Proactive approach to adopting and promoting new delivery practices and tools
• Meticulous attention to team dynamics, velocity trends, and delivery health
• 3+ years’ experience as a practising Scrum Master on software delivery teams
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of Scrum ceremonies and agile delivery frameworks
• Proven experience coaching and mentoring teams, removing impediments and protecting sprint commitments
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate progress, risks and dependencies clearly
• Proficiency with Jira for sprint and backlog management, velocity tracking and agile metrics reporting
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment, including understanding of audit, traceability and change management requirements
• Familiarity with multi-tier application delivery pipelines and how development, QA, and release cycles interact
• Experience facilitating delivery across geographically distributed or offshore teams
• Knowledge of wealth management products and operations, including investment portfolios, pensions, savings products and client suitability processes
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or LeSS experience for programme-level coordination
• Kanban or hybrid Scrumban delivery experience
• Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline delivery
• Experience supporting product owners in roadmap planning, prioritisation and stakeholder management
• Familiarity with SharePoint for team documentation, delivery reporting and collaboration

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.