What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master with Insurance domain position at Themesoft Inc.?
Role: Scrum Master
Location: New York (Onsite)
Duration: Contract
Qualification:
- Scrum master Certification
- SAFe Certification
- 5 years of experience in a dedicated scrum master role for a software development team that was applying Scrum / SAFe principles, practices, and theory
- Knowledge and experience of Agile techniques: user stories, TDD, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, agile games
- Insurance experience and/or technical skills are strongly preferred
Responsibilities:
- Act as Scrum Master for two scrum teams, coaching the teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity at a sustainable pace.
- Participate in Scrum of Scrums and facilitate Program Increment (PI) execution
- Guide teams to be self-organized and motivate teams to focus on team goals/objectives
- Remove impediments and act as a change agent to implement Agile principles and best practices across the team and the organization
- Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand-up, and sprint review/demo
- Facilitate getting the work done effectively and consensus-based methods in a matrixed environment. Ability to influence without direct authority.
- Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
- Communication
- Foster internal team communication by building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged and with an emphasis on problem-solving.
- Assist with communication with the broader IT teams and business stakeholders to improve transparency and visibility into the team’s progress and impediments.
- Assist with documenting and tracking dependencies on other teams and with following up on the status of open items regularly.
- Scheduling meetings and coordinating agendas in advance of the meetings
- Support and educate the product owners in their role of creating, grooming, and maintaining the backlog and supporting the scrum team.
- Support and ensure that the Agile principles are followed. Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing (e.g. burndown charts, defect trends, user story/feature completion rates, capacity, velocity, etc.)
Thank you
Praveen
praveen.s@themesoft.com
