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Houston, Texas, United States
Onsite
As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.
Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:
Flexible paid time off
Hybrid work schedule
401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
Health & wellbeing benefits
Parental Leave benefits
Employee stock purchase plan
As a Scrum Master / Project Manager you will lead one or more Scrum teams or manage medium to large technology projects across multiple cross-functional teams, for the Finance systems portfolio of Technology projects.
You will be responsible for ensuring Scrum Teams / Project Teams are high performing with respect to the selected execution methodology (Agile/Scrum, waterfall or other iterative methodologies). You will own all aspects of the project definition process including facilitating and capturing the business and technology inputs to develop business cases, reviewing with stakeholders, shepherding through the enterprise governance process, and selecting the execution methodology. You will also be called upon to be an active contributor in driving adoption and continuous improvement of Agile/Scrum across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead day-to-day execution of one or more Scrum or project teams
Act as the single voice to the business and technical community on behalf of the team
Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
Drive continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement
Conduct sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates via status reporting and stakeholder reviews
Partner with the Product Owner to understand, organize, and prioritize the product backlog
Assist the development team and Product Owner in refining product functionality and backlog
Propose solutions and approaches to accelerate delivery and meet business objectives
Identify and remove impediments (risks and issues) impacting release and program-level teams
Communicate progress through weekly/monthly status reporting and governance checkpoints
Raise risks and issues to the Product Owner and key stakeholders
Shield the team from external influences not relevant to the current sprint
Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, and Architects in a multi-team environment
Facilitate technical discussions with Architects and Developers to resolve challenges
Coordinate UAT testing with end users
Partner with the Delivery Manager to improve delivery practices (e.g., automated testing, TDD, CI)
Collaborate across the enterprise to standardize and document delivery best practices
Create and oversee project plans, schedules, budgets, and milestones
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment where production releases occur in 2-4 week durations
Good exposure to sizing techniques used in agile process
Ability to improve team maturity levels in understanding process and increasing productivity in terms of velocity
Familiar with knowledge management tools such as Sharepoint, Confluence etc.
Bonus Points:
Scrum Master and Scaled Agile Framework certifications are a plus
Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.
Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.