IT Project Manager, Scrum - Hartford, CT or Minnetonka, MN - Full-time / Part-time

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum Master for 1-2 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
  
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
  
• 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
  
• Liaise between the developers and User Experience/Visual Designers
  
• Foster better communication between the disciplines
  
• 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 and Scrum Master Forums

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  
• 8+ years of IT experience
  
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
  
• 1+ year of experience as a Scrum Master working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Rally
  
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams
  
• Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development
  
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
  
• Understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
  
• Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
  
• Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form
  
• Scrum Master Industry certification
  
• Healthcare experience
  
• UnitedHealth Group 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

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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.

Job Keywords: scrum, scrum master, IT, Rally, iterative development, healthcare, health care, Agile, Hartford, CT, Minnetonka, MN