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Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
The Scrum Master manages small to large enterprise-level programs that have department or enterprise-level importance, moderate to high risk and risk interdependencies, several interrelationships, and moderate to high costs associated with delivery. The Scrum Master supports program s of major complexity as part of a program team in support of higher-level program or program managers. Job Description & Responsibilities
- Fostering Communication - creating channels and translating Scrum nuanced language
- Protecting the team - acting as a buffer for disruptive product managers and management
- Tool Maintenance - administer the Scrum tools and framework
- Reporting - creating and delivering reporting framework for team members and management
- Meeting Facilitation - sprint planning, daily scrum/standups, retrospectives
- Agile Coaching - 1:1 with Scrum team members, stakeholders, and management
- Remove Blockers - work with the team to understand blockers, work to remove them
- Work with Product Owner in several ways, including:
- Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
- Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
- Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
- Understanding product planning in an empirical environment.
- Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
- Understanding and practicing agility; and,
- Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
- Serves the Development Team in several ways, including:
- Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
- Helping the Development Team to create high value products.
- Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress.
- Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and,
- Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
- Serve the company in several ways, including:
- Leading and coaching the company in its Scrum adoption.
- Planning Scrum implementations within the company.
- Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.
- Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
- Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the company.
- 3 - 5 years’ experience as Scrum master
- HS Diploma or GED from an accredited institution
- Experience in managing or working on programs across multiple departments using an SDLC methodology and Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Experience with application and/or systems implementations or upgrades.
- Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
- Scrum Master and/or Agile Certification
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Experience managing more than one scrum team at a time
- Knowledge and/or experience with multiple Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programming, Automated Testing.
- Industry work experience in healthcare such as hospital, managed or long-term care, insurance, government, or other healthcare agency.
- Great Technical skills and should be able to manage and lead minimum of two scrum teams
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $114,000 - $164,730
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $97,800 - $145,520
About the Company
Healthfirst, Inc.
New York City, NY, United States
Healthfirst is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health insurers, offering members access to high-quality, affordable healthcare. The... Read more