Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles, values, and best practices
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure backlog readiness, clear prioritization, and well-defined acceptance criteria
• Identify, track, and remove team-level impediments; escalate systemic risks and dependencies as appropriate
• Support predictable delivery by promoting sustainable pace, focus, and flow
• Enable transparency through effective use of Jira boards, metrics, and artifacts
• Foster collaboration across engineering, security, and risk stakeholders
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives, metrics analysis, and actionable follow-ups
• Support alignment to broader program and PI cadence as coordinated by the Release Train Engineer (RTE)
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (technology, engineering, business, or related field)
• 3 - 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master supporting agile delivery teams
• Hands-on experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and coaching teams in Agile practices
• Experience working with Jira and agile delivery tooling
  
  
  

Must Have:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating within enterprise-scale agile environments
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, SAFe, SM, or equivalent) preferred
  
  
  

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.