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Agile Scrum Master - Multiple Locations - Full-time / Part-time
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Franklin, TN Franklin, Tennessee |
About this job
Position Description:
If you have a solid track record for innovation and accomplishment, we are eager to speak with you! We hire talented coding professionals who are looking to advance their careers by working for the best company in the healthcare industry. You will have the most opportunities to grow and develop your career while using the skills that you have obtained thus far. Being a leader in healthcare IT, it is always challenging and exciting here at Optum in creating the healthcare system of tomorrow. Join us and start doing your life's best work. (sm)
The Agile Scrum Master will be responsible for facilitating one or more scrum teams to support the delivery of strategic technology products. This position requires individuals who are not only experienced as a Scrum Master, but have extensive track records of delivering high quality systems and products. Applicants should have a strong understanding of and hands-on experience with Agile Methods, especially Scrum. Applicants will also be responsible for the coaching of their teams on scrum practices to ensure benefit from and adherence to core agile
principles is achieved.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Act as Scrum master for 1-5 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
- Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team. Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
- Act as a liaison to assigned project manager. 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
This position can be located in Plymouth, MN; Raleigh, NC; or Franklin, TN.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or HS diploma/GED with 4+ years experience additional IT work experience
- 5+ years of IT experience
- 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience with Rally
- Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development
- Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience as a Scrum Master working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects
- Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams
Soft Skills:
- 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 teams
- 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
- Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
- Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
- Attitude of transparency - Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
- Quick learner - Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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