The Claims IT organization is looking for a Sr. Scrum Master to join us on our transformation to Lean-Agile ways of working. The Sr. Scrum Master’s primary role is to be a servant leader and coach for the Agile delivery team. This person will help educate the team in Lean-Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring that the agreed Lean-Agile process is being followed and aligns with The Hartford’s Agile delivery model. They also help remove impediments, and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
What’s in it for you?
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Collaboration with a high-performing, forward-focused team and stakeholders
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Opportunity to be part of an Agile transformation
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Learn and leverage Agile principles and practices at scale
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Frequent mentoring and feedback
Responsibilities:
- Supports and facilitates generally two Scrum Teams in various functions by fostering Agile values and practices
- Ensures team adherence to Agile principles. Provides coaching to the Scrum Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework. Acts as a role model for servant leadership
- Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk. Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders (Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, etc)
- Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team. Protects the team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities
- Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team
- Facilitate team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team
- Arranges daily stand-up meetings, facilitates/schedules meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process
Qualifications
- Strong Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban , XP, etc.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
- Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Strong Knowledge about Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Burn Down Metrics, Velocity etc.
- Resource Management Skills- ability to determine supply and demand and obtain necessary resources across a matrixed organization to complete the work successfully
Equal Opportunity Employer/ Females/ Minorities/ Veterans/ Disability/ Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity or Expression/ Religion/ Age
Job Function
: Business Org Effect.
Primary Location
: United States-North Carolina-Charlotte
Schedule
: Full-time
Job Level
: Individual Contributor
Education Level
: Bachelor’s Degree (±16 years)
Job Type
: Standard
Shift
: Day Job
Employee Status
: Regular
Overtime Status
: Exempt
Travel
: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Job Posting
: Nov 21, 2019, 10:00:50 AM
Remote Worker Option : No
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