Scrum Master, Associate Vice President – Hybrid (Tempe, AZ/ Charlotte, NC)

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
This is a hybrid position. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office an average of two to three days per week with the remainder worked remotely.
Job Summary
In this role you will focus on implementing Agile processes to ensure the achievement of project objectives. Responsibilities may include coordinating a project or program’s projects, milestones, deliverables, and interdependencies; leading project governance, reporting, budgeting and finance; overseeing program management resources; setting budgets validating expense reconciliation for underlying projects; developing a program plan; and coordinating with the development team(s) as needed. In addition, you will also help in leading the Governance team with Business and Risk Management to assess risk and develop controls and mitigation strategies for risk areas.
Major Responsibilities
Drive execution of product roadmap, working closely with product, design, and development teams
Manage features prioritization and estimation with focus on business value
Establish project governance, working groups, and communication with stakeholders
Ensure roadmap is socialized with stakeholder groups and risks and dependencies are identified and escalated
Ensure timetable and deliverable schedules are understood and communicated, and drive on-time delivery across teams
Report project / program status
Manage dependencies proactively, coordinate across teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks
Identify reporting needs and cadence for stakeholder groups and manage delivery
Organize required reporting for business and technology management review sessions
Track financials related to expenditures including software, hardware, and resource allocation
Lead the Governance team independently with Business and Risk Management to assess risk and develop controls and mitigation strategies for risk areas.
Lead project teams, technology stakeholders and vendors for ensuring that the design, development and implementation of applications programs and services meet organization’s information security, risk, change management and other policies.
Work with Application owners, SMEs in HR area to support audit test steps on high-risk applications and coordinate audit activities among Risk, Internal Audit teams and application owners.
Function as SME/Lead and supply Governance, Information Security process knowledge on required subject-areas and systems.
Qualifications
Graduate degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field
Scrum Master Certification or PMP is preferred
6-8 years’ related experience managing technology infrastructure or application development projects, preferably in banking or fintech
4+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master
Experience in an international corporation with a remote workforce preferred
Expertise in Project Management (Software Development l life cycle) principles and processes
Expertise in Agile principles and processes
Advanced knowledge of JIRA/Confluence
Advanced knowledge of Office 365 and Exchange
Experience developing project plans and documentations, driving on-time delivery, and managing risks and issues proactively, and leading a cross-functional team
Some experience working on or supporting corporate HR applications and tools, such as Workday HCM, Peoplsoft HR is a plus.
Preferred to have in-depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and/or Agile Methodology.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
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