About The Job

The Technical Scrum Lead partners with technology and product teams to drive Agile delivery, improve execution, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role focuses on facilitating Agile ceremonies, enabling high‑performing teams, and coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders in a fast‑paced technology environment.

This is a delivery and facilitation role and is ideal for an experienced Scrum Lead who can confidently guide teams, remove obstacles, and adapt Agile practices to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on Agile best practices to support high‑performing technology delivery teams, ensuring work is aligned to defined goals and priorities.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.

• Enable team learning and continuous improvement by coaching teams on Agile and Scrum principles and adapting processes as needed.

• Partner with product owners, technical leaders, and management to define, prioritize, and deliver technology‑related outcomes.

• Maintain transparency with stakeholders around scope, priorities, dependencies, delivery timelines, and risks, addressing concerns as they arise.

• Support the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into Agile delivery plans.

• Identify trade‑offs between short‑term deliverables and long‑term value to support shared decision‑making.

• Apply Agile frameworks to improve the effectiveness, predictability, and quality of technology delivery.

• Identify and help remove blockers impacting team execution or architectural work.

• Contribute to cross‑team initiatives, special projects, and other delivery‑related efforts as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum of three years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred.

• Proven experience supporting technology delivery teams in Agile environments.

• Strong working knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices.

• Hands‑on experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.

• Understanding of technical concepts and terminology (no coding required).

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, technology, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in financial services or enterprise technology environments.

• Familiarity with Kanban or SAFe frameworks.

• Experience working with DevOps or cloud‑based delivery teams.

• Scrum or Agile certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe, or similar).

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.