Scrum Master, AVP

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The Senior Scrum Master plays a pivotal role in driving agile transformation within the organization. This position is responsible for facilitating effective delivery across teams, ensuring adherence to SAFe guidelines, and championing continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership abilities, a proactive approach to risk and issue management, and a proven track record in guiding complex projects to successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for 1-3 teams with high complexities and dependencies
• Proactively manage risks and issues or impediments by identifying potential impacts, target resolution dates, owners, and mitigation strategies, while ensuring timely and effective resolution.
• Facilitate Scaling Agile Framework (SAFe) ceremonies and ensure adherence to SAFe guidelines to enhance team alignment and productivity.
• Lead Program Increment (PI) planning sessions and provide support to teams in meeting PI objectives. Oversee daily Scrum and Kanban activities, including the facilitation of stand-ups, backlog refinement, and workflow optimization.
• Participate in prioritization activities with product owners and stakeholders to ensure business objectives are met.
• Facilitate executive stakeholder readouts, delivering clear progress updates and insights for informed decision-making.
• Facilitate retrospective sessions and drive continuous improvement initiatives to cultivate a culture of learning and adaptability across teams.
• Manage and coordinate dependencies across multiple teams, ensuring alignment, early identification of cross-team risks, and streamlined delivery of integrated solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Change and Release standards and guidelines. Appropriately prioritize and plan the remediation of production defects, incidents, and problem records.
• Ensure adherence to Enterprise EPMO standards, guidelines, and governance frameworks across all assigned Agile teams, aligning delivery practices with organizational expectations and controls.
• Track, report, and continuously improve against Enterprise EPMO governance metrics, including delivery health, predictability, risk, dependency management, and compliance indicators.
• Partner with the Enterprise EPMO, Release Train Engineers, and Program Leadership to support governance reviews, audits, and readiness checkpoints as required.
• Ensure transparency and accuracy of Agile metrics and artifacts to support Enterprise EPMO reporting, executive dashboards, and decision‑making.
• Effectively prioritize and ensure timely remediation of all identified vulnerabilities, risk findings, and audit findings in accordance with established Cyber Security SLAs, partnering with technology, security, and governance stakeholders to drive compliance and risk reduction.
• Leverage AI and automation technologies to enhance the team's productivity

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 years of experience working in large-scale, multi-team Agile organizations
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Scrum Master in agile environments, preferably at the senior level
• Working knowledge of SAFe principles, Agile methodologies, and project management best practices
• Expertise in both Scrum and Kanban frameworks

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to manage risks and issues proactively in complex projects.
• Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, with experience leading PI planning and executive briefings.
• Proven experience managing dependencies and coordination among multiple agile teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build collaborative relationships across teams and stakeholders.
• SAFe Scrum Master certification or equivalent Agile certifications.
• Familiarity with agile project management tools such as Jira, Rally, or equivalent.

Pay Range:

$112,090-$186,816/year

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity

At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.

Why LPL?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
• Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here!

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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