Scrum Master – Enterprise Data Management

Voya Financial

Scrum Master enabling Agile delivery across Enterprise Data Management teams at Voya. Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure work is well understood and ready for execution.

Posted 7/25/2026full-timeHartford • Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $114,480 - $138,070 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience as a Scrum Master, facilitating Agile practices and ceremonies while ensuring effective delivery and team accountability. Proficient in stakeholder partnership, risk management, and continuous improvement to enhance team performance and delivery outcomes.

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Scrum Master ExperienceAgile PrinciplesFacilitation SkillsStakeholder PartnershipImpediment Removal

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Hard Skills

Agile MethodologiesScrum PracticesDelivery VisibilityDependency ManagementRisk IdentificationCapacity PlanningForecastingContinuous ImprovementTeam ExecutionBacklog Refinement

Soft Skills

Communication SkillsConflict ResolutionCritical ThinkingPartnership BuildingNavigating Ambiguity

Industry Keywords

Cross-Functional TeamsTeam OwnershipSelf-OrganizationScrum CeremoniesDelivery Outcomes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Enable effective, predictable, and value-focused delivery across Enterprise Data Management scrum teams by bringing together Agile discipline, facilitation, coaching, and delivery visibility.
Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, Tech Leads, team members, and business stakeholders to ensure work is well understood, appropriately prioritized, and ready for execution.
Establish, schedule, and facilitate Scrum ceremonies as needed, including Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Tasking, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective, ensuring each has clear purpose, participation, and outcomes.
Coach and influence teams to adopt Agile principles, practices, and behaviors that improve team effectiveness, delivery outcomes, and organizational consistency.
Establish and reinforce Agile standards and team agreements, including Definitions of Ready and Done, while adapting practices to fit team maturity, context, and organizational expectations.
Enable strong team ownership, accountability, and self-organization by reinforcing transparency, alignment, and shared responsibility for delivery.
Maintain clear visibility into team commitments, progress, blockers, dependencies, and risks to support informed decision-making across the team and stakeholders.
Identify, surface, and actively help remove impediments impacting flow, focus, or the team’s ability to deliver value, stepping beyond traditional role boundaries when necessary to help the team succeed.
Drive follow-through on retrospective actions and continuous improvement efforts, providing actionable feedback to improve team effectiveness.
Use metrics and delivery insights to identify trends, uncover opportunities for improvement, and drive better team effectiveness, predictability, and outcomes.
Facilitate alignment with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders when dependencies, sequencing, or shared deliverables require coordination.
Help teams navigate ambiguity, identify gaps in thinking, facilitate timely decisions, and drive clarity across competing priorities, ownership concerns, and delivery challenges.
Support delivery planning and operational activities, including forecasting, capacity planning, PI Planning, transition-to-maintenance efforts, and ensuring required artifacts are completed and maintained.

Requirements

What you’ll need

High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
High School Diploma/GED plus 2 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master in a cross-functional Agile delivery environment.
Hands-on Scrum Master experience required. Certification-only exposure is not sufficient for this role.
Experience supporting technology teams required.
Strong working knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and team-level execution.
Experience supporting delivery visibility, planning, dependency management, risk identification, and impediment removal.
Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder partnership, and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to build effective partnerships across engineering, product, business, and leadership stakeholders, including Product Owners, Tech Leads, Engineering Leaders, and business partners.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments and navigating ambiguity with sound judgment and follow-through.
Ability to think critically, ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and recommend practical improvements to team processes and delivery practices.
Comfortable working with full-time employees, vendor resources, and offshore team members.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year