at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Associate Specialist, Scrum Master/Agile Manager, Omnium Change Management
The role involves working for Northern Trust Omnium Change Management, supporting the software development lifecycle for the Omnium Platform. This is a multi-tenant platform supporting mainly Hedge Fund Services (HFS), a global fund administrator, specializing in complex hedge funds and alternative asset investments. The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to function as an effective and strategic leader in a dynamic, fast-paced, and demanding environment. This individual will have a strong technical background, experience working within the Financial Services industry and a proven track record of solving business problems, managing projects and internal/external relationships. The role will be a key part of our Omnium Change Management team and will be visible to many teams and partners.
This role is responsible for project management and scrum master/agile execution for the Solutions Oversight Team. This Team of Teams was formed to create solutions for business processes using technology such as Xceptor, Alteryx, VBA, Python, SQL and Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, PowerBI, etc) as supplemental automation beyond the Omnium Product team. The Scrum Master/Agile Management function is responsible for executing product-focused visions aligned to HFS' business strategy - optimizing technology sequencing and delivery.
Major Duties:
- Responsible for managing strategic development execution to support the Omnium Platform and various segment stakeholders/clients
- Responsible for managing the software development pipeline - from feature prioritization to coordinating the deployment to production
- Demonstrate T-shaped skills in the areas of agile project management, scrum mastering/agile coaching, release planning and project management
- Lead regular meetings with development managers/developers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to prioritize development and coordinate testing and release management
- Backlog grooming and prioritization utilizing tools such as Azure Boards in collaboration with business sponsors, development teams and business analysts that align to client and business objectives. Manage reprioritization and negotiations between stakeholders as needed. Collaborate with peer agile managers when sequencing requirements are cross-workstreams
- Responsible for reporting on development team activities and preparing development roadmaps visualizations for stakeholder transparency
- Lead release planning activities to ensure successful delivery to production. Create release versions in partnership with development team(s), communicate and manage release testing timelines and support production coordination in partnership with release management. Ensure tight testing coordination with peers across omnium applications.
- Demonstrate leadership within the organization; proactively identify ways to demonstrate continuous improvement across teams. Facilitate continuous improvement best practices,...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
