Scrum Master

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Company: CIITS INC
Location: Minneapolis, MN

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Job details
Salary

$76,800 a year

Job Type
Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Qualifications
  • Experience:

    • Scrum Master, 5 years (Required)

    • Full Job Description

    JOB DESCRIPTION:

    We have opening for Scrum Master with UHG and this is Remote opportunity. But, we need somebody who worked with UHG in past.

    Essential Duties:

    • Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers
    • Guiding the team(s) and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
    • Guiding the team(s) on how to get the most out of self-organization
    • Guiding the team(s) on self-organizing to fully realize the potential of Agile/Scrum frameworks
    • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team(s) and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
    • Removing impediments or guiding the team(s) to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
    • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
    • Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
    • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
    • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
    • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
    • Providing all support to the team(s) using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
    • Perform as an evangelist for Optum’s internal implementation of SAFe (SAFe + PLM)
    • Helping the department and Optum mature out of legacy processes
    • Mentor junior Scrum Masters towards improvement

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, SAFe Agilest or Practitioner)
    • 5 years of experience in a Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
    • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
    • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for eliciting change in team behavior (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

    Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):

    • Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II, SPCT 4++)
    • Knowledge of other agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
    • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
    • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team (.Net, Java, or other web development languages)
    • Previous experience as a development team lead
    • Excellent communication and mentoring skills
    • Contributions to the public around agile practices