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Job Description:
Employee Growth, Job Qualifications, and Responsibilities
D.A. Davidson is seeking a dynamic individual to join our team as a Scrum Master / Project Manager for leading enterprise technology and business initiatives within our Equity Capital Markets and Fixed Income Capital Markets Business Units. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work in a highly sophisticated environment with many different business groups and technology solutions. This position will be responsible for driving execution of initiatives designed to streamline business efficiencies and needs while leveraging standard project management methodologies. The individual will be responsible for overall project management and tasks including project tracking, communication and documentation.
D.A. Davidson Companies is an independent, employee-owned company with a rich history spanning more than 80 years. We are dedicated to conducting our business in accordance with the highest standards of integrity and ethics, and delivering outstanding service to our clients and each other. We support a friendly, open and adaptive culture, and encourage candid communication and productive collaboration across our firm. Just as we work to improve our clients and employees’ well-being, we also work to strengthen local communities—and giving back is one of our core values.
Required Experience:
Employee Growth, Job Qualifications, and Responsibilities
- D.A. Davidson places significant importance on career growth and employee development
- Position includes opportunities to work with key business units to strategize and help resource innovation and technology solutions
- Numerous employee training programs that include tuition credit, conferences, technical certifications, field training, and broker-dealer series licensing
- This position includes working with a global workforce and subject matter experts across many IT and business domains
- Position offers employee ownership that includes profit sharing and access to ESOP programs
- Professional culture with healthy work / life balance, along with options and technology to support working remotely
- Agile training, mentoring, and adoption across IT
- D.A. Davidson maintains an IT culture that with communities of practice and centers of excellence to broadly share knowledge and insights
Duties and Qualifications:
The Scrum Master / PM position requires specific technical knowledge to plan, organize, and direct resources, processes, and oversee timing for a technical process or project including:
The Scrum Master / PM position requires specific technical knowledge to plan, organize, and direct resources, processes, and oversee timing for a technical process or project including:
- Partner with leadership to assess and prioritize work and to secure resources to support technology deployments
- Partner with IT and the business to developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports, conducting risk analysis and monitoring the progress of plans against project milestones and budgets;
- Providing technical and analytical guidance to the project team;
- Manage and communicate project issues and blockers
- Ensuring adherence to quality standards and review of project deliverables
- Analyzing and documenting requirements by liaising with a range of users in the organization; and
- Where applicable, managing the integration of vendor tasks and tracking and reviewing vendor deliverables. Compile and maintain project status reports
- Management of project schedules and meetings, help set timelines and manage to them
- Assist with the support of the firm’s project management office and environment. Tracking and follow through of existing project requests to ensure that all phases are documented appropriately
The candidate will be familiar with project management concepts, practices, and procedures and rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. As with many projects, a degree of creativity and latitude is required.
Qualifications:
- Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence tools
- Prior Scrum Master job experience
- Preferred candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree and five years of project management / Agile experience
- PMP certification is preferred; D.A. Davidson will sponsor continuing education
- Experience leading projects leveraging both agile and waterfall methodologies
- Strong computer proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence) a plus
- Information Technology and financial services background a plus
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Prior experience with Capital Markets is helpful, but not required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong work ethic and teamwork skills
- Good judgment and ability to exercise discretion when handling confidential information
- Self-starter who is able to work independently and in a team
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
From: D.A. Davidson Companies
