Agile Delivery Director - Multiple Locations - Full-time / Part-time

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• Act and as an adoption/transformation lead for one for multiple value streams of work


• Serve as an Agile Program Lead to facilitate program level grooming activities


• Provide leadership and direction to the program team, other Agile Program Leads and Scrum Masters


• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration


• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal


• Maintain relevant metrics that help the program see how they are doing


• Liaise between the developers and User Experience/Visual Designers. Foster better communication between the disciplines.


• Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers


• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties, release managers, or between our team and other scrum teams


• Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums


• Lead and manage a team of Agile Program Leads and Scrum Masters


• Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills and career

• Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done


• Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum team members to executives


• Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team


• Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.


• Situational Awareness – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management


• Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy


• Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team


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  Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches


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  Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization


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  Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust


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  Quick learner – Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams


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  Understanding of:


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  Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition


• Incremental delivery and the value of metrics


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  Basic fundamentals of iterative development


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  Basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures

• 10+ years of IT experience


• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach


• 3+ years of leading/managing people


• 3+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects


• 2+ years of experience working on mixed methodology program (Scrum interfacing with Waterfall from a dependency perspective)


• Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams


• Experience with Rally


• Experience with various Testing techniques such as Test Driven Development and Experience with behavior driven testing. 


• Experience and understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Frameworks (service layer isolation)


• Experience and understanding of Front End User Experience and Front End Development technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript


• Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form

Assets:

• Scrum Master Industry certification


• SAFe Certification(s)


• Lean Methodology Certifications


• Healthcare experience


• Understanding of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise


• Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team


• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices


• Participation in industry agile communities


• Graduate Degree

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Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.