Scrum Master

Company: Chubb
Location: Jersey City, NJ

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Scrum Master(Job Number: 331277)

Description

Role Expectations

  • Accountabilities – Ensures agile values
    are understood and enacted by coaching and mentoring the Scrum Team on
    agile principles and practices. Enable team’s ceremonies and ways of
    working – implementing, facilitating, and evolving them where needed to reach
    desired outcomes.
  • Outcomes – As a “servant leader”, enables
    scrum teams to relentlessly deliver customer value. While never losing
    focus on continuous improvement / innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Coach the Team – Acts as a servant-leader
    for the team and guides them in their agile journey; challenges the team
    to see how agile values / principles can be applied to situations and
    decisions to the benefit of customers.
  • Facilitate Team Ceremonies – Stand up;
    Inception; Sprint planning; backlog refinement; team demos
  • Enable the team – Increases team
    productivity by helping the team remove impediments that may obstruct the
    pursuit of their sprint goals, and preserves flexibility and ability to
    rapidly respond to changes on the team
  • Support the program & stakeholders –
    Ensures clear communication and organization of all team objectives /
    roadmap / work in process using electronic and physical information
    radiators, using agile charts and Key performance Indicators, where
    appropriate.
  • Communication – Demonstrated ability to
    effectively communicate in writing and verbally with technical and
    non-technical audiences, including persuasion and negotiation skills to
    resolve differences with skill and understanding

Required Skills/Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Minimum of 5+ year’s direct experience
    working with teams in an agile environment. (Working with Distributed
    agile teams would be preferable)
  • Demonstrated experience of managing
    multiple teams as Scrum Master.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and
    coaching in an agile environment (Scrum & Kanban)
  • Insurance industry knowledge
  • Strong oral and written communication
    skills
  • Using Agile Tools (JIRA)
Qualifications

Role Expectations

  • Accountabilities – Ensures agile values
    are understood and enacted by coaching and mentoring the Scrum Team on
    agile principles and practices. Enable team’s ceremonies and ways of
    working – implementing, facilitating, and evolving them where needed to reach
    desired outcomes.
  • Outcomes – As a “servant leader”, enables
    scrum teams to relentlessly deliver customer value. While never losing
    focus on continuous improvement / innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Coach the Team – Acts as a servant-leader
    for the team and guides them in their agile journey; challenges the team
    to see how agile values / principles can be applied to situations and
    decisions to the benefit of customers.
  • Facilitate Team Ceremonies – Stand up;
    Inception; Sprint planning; backlog refinement; team demos
  • Enable the team – Increases team
    productivity by helping the team remove impediments that may obstruct the
    pursuit of their sprint goals, and preserves flexibility and ability to
    rapidly respond to changes on the team
  • Support the program & stakeholders –
    Ensures clear communication and organization of all team objectives /
    roadmap / work in process using electronic and physical information
    radiators, using agile charts and Key performance Indicators, where
    appropriate.
  • Communication – Demonstrated ability to
    effectively communicate in writing and verbally with technical and
    non-technical audiences, including persuasion and negotiation skills to
    resolve differences with skill and understanding

Required Skills/Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Minimum of 5+ year’s direct experience
    working with teams in an agile environment. (Working with Distributed
    agile teams would be preferable)
  • Demonstrated experience of managing
    multiple teams as Scrum Master.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and
    coaching in an agile environment (Scrum & Kanban)
  • Insurance industry knowledge
  • Strong oral and written communication
    skills
  • Using Agile Tools (JIRA)

EEO Statement

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.

Work Locations – Jersey City Jersey City 07302

Job – Information Technology

Travel – Yes, 25 % of the Time

Job Posting – Nov 27, 2019, 9:45:59 AM