Scrum Master-1 at Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Massachusetts

Job Description:

We enjoy the important work we do every day on behalf of our members.

Job Summary

As a Scrum Master, you will be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional Scrum team within the Core system implementation team (PI). You'll advise and lead the team on Agile values, principles and Scrum framework to ensure that the team is fully functional, productive, and focused on the PI Objectives. As a Scrum Master, you will work directly on a team to coach and facilitate the continuous improvement of the team. Working with the product owner, you will support the work of the team by facilitating agile events and ceremonies, such as, daily stand ups, interaction planning and retrospectives. You will work with the Release Train Engineer, and program team to coordinate delivery work and services toward the PI Objectives delivering on business value. You will participate in the Agile Release Train events, such as Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt workshop, as required by the program.

Job Description

• Work closely with Product Management, Development, QA and other stakeholders on planning and delivering high quality software using agile/scrum framework

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies for one or more scrum teams including the daily standup, sprint planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives

• Understand the product and technology well enough to support the project, identify and communicate risks, and facilitate issue resolution

• Serve as Agile champion and coach teams and stakeholders on agile principles and the agile mindset and drive home the value of agile/scrum

• Ensure the team has clear understanding of the quality of software they are developing and is constantly working to improve that quality

• Provide and track agile metrics as it relates to scrum team predictability and productivity with an eye towards continuous improvement

• Participate in scrum of scrum ceremonies to communicate and mitigate risk, escalate blockers, and drive progress on cross-team dependencies

• Identifying team improvement opportunities and looking externally for best practices to support continuous improvement

• Driving a collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices

Requirements

EDUCATION: (Minimum education required)

• Bachelors degree required


• PMP preferred

EXPERIENCE: (Years of experience)

• 3+ years Agile program management experience in software development using Scrum


• 2+ years as Scrum Master


• Experience with Kanban a plus


• Experience driving/leading scaled Agile transformation efforts a plus


• Experience with Agile ALM tools like JIRA, Rally, etc.


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SKILL REQUIREMENTS: (Include interpersonal skills)

• Strong ability to manage multiple projects and coordinate with other teams


• Strong ability to foster and maintain a positive and creative work environment for teams including resolving conflict within the team


• Experience with various sized co-located and geographically distributed teams a plus


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills


• Excellent organizational and time management skills


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills


• Highly energetic, responsible, organized, self-disciplined, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision

What we build together changes our customer's health for the better. We are looking for talented and innovative people to join our team. Come join us!

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