Scrum Master

Company: Healthedge
Location: Burlington, MA 01803

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HealthEdge (“HE”) is seeking an experienced Scrum Master for the Professional Services team based in its Burlington, MA offices. The applicant will provide process definition, agile coaching, re-enforcement, and evangelism, as well as daily scrum management for the Engineering Services team.

HealthEdge is an agile and innovative 21st-century software company focused on providing next-generation, business-transforming technology products to the healthcare payor market. We enable our customers to radically innovate, drastically reduce costs, and efficiently address the business imperatives of the evolving healthcare economy. HealthEdge was founded in December 2004. In January 2005, the company acquired over $100 million of intellectual property and other assets. This technology served as the foundation for the patented, award-winning HealthRules product suite.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate organizational change management aspects of agile introduction and play a prominent role in influencing the acceptance and practice of scrum/agile process
  • Coach and mentor product engineering team(s) on scrum / lean/ agile principles and practices.
  • Evangelize, coach and mentor business and management stakeholders on the value proposition of Lean, Agile & Scrum
  • Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple teams
  • Assist in release planning and sprint planning
  • Run standup/scrum meetings for the engineering team
  • Maintain and refine JIRA (version 7.x or above) workflows to support scrum/agile development process
  • Develop, produce and monitor team performance reports (velocity, estimates vs actual)
  • Issue/task tracking, enforcement of Jira processes (time recording, task breakdowns)
  • Assisting in prioritizing work
  • Progress tracking for active releases (done vs remaining, projected completion dates)
  • Work with PMO to incorporate agile processes into HE’s teams
  • Train newcomers on our methodology
  • Maintain HealthEdge best practices materials (SharePoint, PPT presentations, FAQ)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Performing all job functions consistent with HealthEdge policies and procedures, including those which govern handling PHI and PII

Requirements/Qualifications:

  • The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5-8 plus years’ experience in the software development domain, as well as in-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies.
  • Proven track record of running agile teams in an engineering setting
  • Ability to prioritize and execute in a high performing engineering environment
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience with Jira (version 7.x or above)
  • Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • HealthCare Payor domain experience is a plus
  • Advanced degree in a related discipline is a plus
  • Scrum master certification or equivalent preferred