Senior Scrum Master (Remote) - Conexess Group, LLC
Nashville, TN
About the Job
Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.
Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.
Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for a Senior Scrum Master in a remote capacity. This is a long-term opportunity with a competitive compensation package.
Responsibilities:
Must have a sufficient understanding of technology to be able to lead team members and help them overcome their development roadblocks; they must also understand business strategy and objectives, and be able to ensure that development work is prioritized by business value and results align with objectives.
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From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.
Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.
Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for a Senior Scrum Master in a remote capacity. This is a long-term opportunity with a competitive compensation package.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as the “servant leader” of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule.
- Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects.
- Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
- Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
- Focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert
- Exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership and the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset.
- Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
- Facilitate the team’s progress toward the goal and is constantly engaged in challenging the old norms and roles while keeping the team focused on the goals of the iteration
- Help the team excel in areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
- Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of the current PI objectives.
- Facilitate all team ceremonies, including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, system demo, and iteration retrospective
- Eliminate Impediments:. Many blocking issues will be beyond the team’s authority or will require support from other teams. The Scrum Master actively addresses these issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the iteration
- Communicate with Management and outside stakeholders. Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
- Agile Coach. Coaches and supports the team and those supporting the team in pragmatic, standard, best agile practices
- Work with Value Stream and Platform Group Lean Portfolio Management teams to identify process improvement opportunities to deliver business value faster.
- Engage and develop the Change Management approach for any standard and best practices which includes but not limited to: direct communications, facilitation of training sessions and automate reporting on adoption of best practices.
- Support shared services & Business Operational Readiness areas (e.g. Service Operations, Sales, Underwriting) mature their processes to be as lean and efficient as possible.
Must have a sufficient understanding of technology to be able to lead team members and help them overcome their development roadblocks; they must also understand business strategy and objectives, and be able to ensure that development work is prioritized by business value and results align with objectives.
- Self-directed achiever who identifies opportunities to drive business value delivery
- Excellent people skills with a customer-service oriented approach, with a focus on building relationships with people at all levels of the organization from IT Senior Directors to Scrum Team Members.
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Knowledge of core agile principles and tenets
- Ability to take an ambiguous tasks from idea to implementation
- Advanced skills using Agile tools (Jira/Jira Align)
- SAFe Certifications
- Experience as a project manager, business analyst, or scrum master
- Experience with content management tools: Confluence, SharePoint, etc
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Source : Conexess Group, LLC