Scrum Master

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Company: Cigna
Location: Philadelphia, PA

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It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing!

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Traits of desired candidate:

  • Passionate about technology, and is always looking to further their personal knowledge and expertise
  • Comfortable executing against tasks that are occasionally ambiguous, but works independently to seek out needed information
  • Is not the type to wait for others to tell them “what to do next”, but who proactively looks to fill their work queue
  • Enjoys working in a team of high performers, who hold each other accountable to perform to their very best
  • Does not shy away from opportunities for ‘constructive confrontation’ and both provide and take feedback with team members
  • Works well as an internal and external team representative
  • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values
  • Ability to work with at least two teams as Scrum Master
  • Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
  • Assess and coach the team to higher levels of Agile maturity, at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organization
  • Remove impediments or guide the team on how to remove them
  • Coach teams on how to self-organize, and fill in gaps in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
  • Facilitate the Agile ceremonies necessary to help the team succeed
  • Help a team account for items committed; make sure no items are neglected or not accounted for
  • Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
  • Expect to also be a team contributor in some aspect
  • Engaged in and represents team in capacity and project planning
  • This is an engineering-delivery role, responsible for planning, meeting team commitments and escalating delivery risks in a timely manner.
  • Accurately assess timeline to prioritize delivery commitments taking into account practical scrum practices

Experience/Qualifications:

  • 4 year college degree or equivalent work experience
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master
  • Ability to work with a number of strong personalities on behalf of your team
  • Knowledge of and hands-on experience with the Agile Scrum framework
  • Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments
  • Able to demonstrate that you worked with at least one team and increased its effectiveness
  • Able to network across a large organization to facilitate team needs
  • Strong leadership, time management, and conflict resolution skills
  • Experience promoting Agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, etc.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex (including pregnancy), childbirth or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require an accommodation based on your physical or mental disability please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.