Overview
Scrum Master II for the Business Insurance IT Agile Delivery team, enabling iterative delivery of technology solutions supporting core business insurance operations, acting as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Act as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders.
- Aid the team and Product Owner in managing and sequencing the backlog.
- Lead moderately complex teams with routine external team impact or dependencies and multiple system integration points.
- Eliminate impediments and resolve issues, with occasional support from the Release Train Engineer or other resources.
- Resolve and manage dependencies, with occasional guidance from the Release Train Engineer or other resources.
- Assist in building a high-performing team and foster relentless improvement at the team level, improving quality, predictability, flow and velocity.
- Identify SAFe anti-patterns and resolve them, applying SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement and coaching.
- Coach teams on practices, procedures, soft skills and Lean-Agile mindset, guiding decision making and teaching problem solving, communication, self-management and self-organization.
- Support a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised, and help manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and growth opportunities within the team.
- Mentor and guide junior-level Scrum Masters on SAFe principles, the Agile Manifesto and Agile ceremonies.
- Organize and lead a Community of Practice.
- Independently participate in, facilitate and manage the outputs of all agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and preparation for Program Increment Planning.
- Participate in Scrum Master Communities of Practice, Scrum Master Sync Sessions and Agile Release Train Sync Sessions.
- Create an environment for continuous learning and pursue Agile knowledge (e.g. user groups, conferences, books, blogs).
- Work with the Scrum Master Community of Practice to establish standard procedures and improve product delivery capability.
- Seek advice from and work occasionally with the Release Train Engineer to establish best practices and resolve challenging issues, risks, conflicts or impediments.
- Demonstrate beginner to intermediate experience with Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What you'll need
- SAFe Certified Scrum Master certification within 180 days of hire.
- 1-3 years in an Agile environment or 4+ years of experience in a project environment.
- Minimum 2 years experience in a Scrum Master role, or 1 year in Scrum Master Level I, or 4+ years experience in a servant leader role.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (listed as preferred in the education requirements; see Nice to have).
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- SAFe Certified Practitioner or Agilist within 180 days of hire.
- Strong understanding of Commercial Insurance operations and P&C systems.
Details
- Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
- Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based).
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