Scrum Master

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate , serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients' needs and exceeding their expectations.

Your Team's Impact

Data Solution Business Agility Team: our mission is to design team(s), organization(s), and practice(s) that foster learning, lean thinking, and psychological safety for our individuals and teams that enable them to be agile, embrace change, continuously improve, and self-organize to find the most effective & efficient ways to deliver value towards Business Outcomes iteratively .

The Scrum Master acts as the service leader and coach for one or more delivery teams within the organization. An effective Scrum Master promotes attributes of a high-functioning, dedicated agile team, perpetuating team dynamics of support and value-driven delivery, protecting the team from external interference, removing impediments, ensuring effective Agile events, driving continuous improvement, and promoting healthy Agile practices within the team and across the organization. As part of a larger community of agile practitioners, they are advocates for Agile practices both within the team and the organization.

The role requires strong facilitation, delivery discipline, and the ability to coach teams and leaders toward agile ways of working. Experience with project management and strategic agility advisory is highly preferred. Familiarity with AI-driven tools or concepts will be considered a plus.

What You'll Do

75% - Ensure Agile teams are practising the core agile values of human interaction, delivering working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change in the following ways:

• Actively shield teams from interference
• Provide the team with tools to identify and remove impediments to continuous team delivery of valuable software.
• Mentor teams toward becoming increasingly self-managed and cross-functional - with fewer dependencies.
• Foster a team environment that encourages team members to both seek help from within the team and to lean in to help the team achieve sprint/iteration goals
• Partner with Product Owners to effectively manage the backlog, incorporate customer feedback, and apply user story writing best practices.
• Facilitate team Agile events; co-facilitate high-level team and company agile events
• Work with teams to identify their capacity to ensure that they can meet the sprint/iteration objectives
• Participate in discussions related to trade-offs to bring in new work
• Mentor team in the use of outcome rather than output-based value development
• Learn and start to apply Agile planning techniques, like quarterly planning
• Create a psychologically safe environment for team(s)

10% - Support progress reporting and sprint/iteration metrics to provide the team with tools for self-inspection in areas of team health, success, and improvement

5% - Active participation in the Agile maturation process for the organization

• Effectively describe Agile roles, events, and methodologies
• Practice and continue to develop mentoring and coaching techniques
• Participate in scrum master guilds or communities of practice
• Co-facilitate one or more agility workshops (e.g. Agile & Lean Fundamentals or User Story Writing Workshop)
• Contribute to one or more corporate communications efforts, furthering agile transformation as an organization
• Actively learn about multiple Agile methodologies (Lean, XP, Kanban)

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-6 years of experience working in a software development organization, preferably in an agile environment.
• 3-4 years of experience as Scrum Master for an Agile Team.
• Scrum Master Certification preferred.
• Proficiency with one Agile methodology and familiarity with one or more methodologies such as Scrum, XP, and Kanban.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to provide direct and honest feedback to team members.
• Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills.
• Apply adaptable project management competencies to support complex initiatives.
• Experience supporting teams in navigating AI-enabled productivity tools or insights is a bonus.

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.

• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.

• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.

• A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.

• Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.

• Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

Company Overview:

FactSet ( NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS ) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award winner. Learn more at and follow us on X and LinkedIn .

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.