Scrum Master

The Information Technology Team of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master. We are looking for a team member who would enjoy working for an organization that strives every day to support the public good and make a difference. Are you driven to utilize your skills while delivering excellent service to build long-lasting rapport? If so, this is a perfect opportunity for you!

This position is located in the NAIC’s state-of-the-art offices in Town Pavilion in the heart of downtown Kansas City which includes great restaurants and top-notch entertainment venues. This is a full-time position in a positive and flexible environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead one or multiple scrum teams working on strategic projects, internal projects, application maintenance work, and other software development initiatives.
• Working with manager, product owners, and team members, organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and demos, and retrospectives.
• Assists project and business managers with scope definition and release planning.
• Mentors and trains team members and staff throughout the organization on agile best practices and techniques.
• Identifies and communicates project and sprint impediments and risks. Facilities resolution where needed.
• Monitors and communicates team progress during sprints
• Completes or coordinates completion of project tasks to push a project forward or to hit scheduled milestones.
• Communicates roadblocks to senior staff or management
• Expresses findings and recommendations clearly across all levels of management, both verbally and in writing.
• Displays leadership and sets good examples.
• Builds teamwork and shows willingness to evaluate new techniques and technologies being used by other members of the team.

Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with all phases of development life cycle, including analysis, design, construction, implementation, and following it through to the evolution phases.
• Expertise is agile development concepts and practices.
• Demonstrates excellent ability to understand the ‘big picture’ and how systems and applications affect, and are affected by, other applications and initiatives.
• Looks for ways to improve the quality of the systems to which he/she is assigned for business analysis.
• Demonstrates ability to work with multiple levels of detail.
• Demonstrates ability for technical and creative problem solving.
• Familiarity with or ability to learn diagramming and modeling techniques and software
• Possesses excellent interpersonal, conflict resolution, and customer service skills, and an understanding
• of office relationships.
• Demonstrates high levels of honesty, integrity, veracity, and confidentiality.
• Demonstrates highly developed leadership skills, including excellent team building skills
• Demonstrates the ability to multi-task between projects and tasks.
• Ability to learn internally developed and vendor-developed web-based, client/server, and stand-alone
• PC NAIC applications.

Minimum Education and/or experience required:

Bachelor’s degree (BA) and at least 10 years related work experience combined with 3+ years in the Scrum Master role; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

In depth knowledge of agile development best practices.

Preferred Experience:

Experience with JIRA.

PMI-ACP and/or Certified Scrum Master.

Why Work at the NAIC/NIPR?

· Flexible Work Environment

· 37.5 Hour Work Week

· Tuition Reimbursement

· Referral Bonuses

· Choice of Insurance Plans

· Vacation Buy Back

· Infants in the Work Place

· Adoption Assistance

· Parental Leave

· Employee Recognition Programs

· Days Off for Community Service

· Student Loan Repayment Program

· Fitness Center

The NAIC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

For consideration, please apply online at:

http://careers.naic.org

Applicants for all positions are considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• related work: 10 years (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance