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Senior Scrum Master III
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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Scrum Master for a contract to hire position in Minnetonka, MN.
Position Summary: The Member Portal/Digital API Development team is focused on building solutions to support Medicas Provide Service business domains around our Digital Experience. The Scrum Masterwill be responsible for leading the work to develop and support solutions to advance these business domains utilizing mobile, web, cloud, and API technologies. They will leverage their development knowledge and experience to guide internal and external development resources to solve complex business problems.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- IT Scrum Master is responsible for helping team members through successful and quality product delivery for their corresponding business and information technology stakeholders. This position requires a servant-leader mindset as well as one who can enforce the values, principles and practices of Agile through rules that the product team has agreed upon. The position will require cross-communication with other teams and communication to senior business and IT leadership as required.
- The Scrum Master will be expected to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations while balancing competing demands among requirements/scope, time and budget. This expectation will require the management and prioritization of the product backlog. The Scrum Master will work with their corresponding Product Owner for the identification and prioritization of backlog items.
- This role will be responsible for ensuring delivery timelines and maintaining capital and expense budget while adhering to agile values, principles and practices. This role is responsible for producing artifacts and communicating sprint and release metrics and progress.
- This role ensures that the development team is free from distraction whether that be competing work priorities or potential interruption or impediments. This will be done by acting as a facilitator and buffer between any external or internal influences. The Scrum Master seeks to consistently challenge the development team to incorporate best practices, increase productivity, and ensure quality.
- Assist with short term tactical planning, organizing and execution
- Assist with financial forecasting
- Ability to coach and mentor more junior IT Scrum Masters
- Determine gaps and needs within the team and advocate for support to leadership as necessary
- Inform and create trusted partnerships with business stakeholders
- Plan and partner with other IT teams for shared delivery
- Responsible for key SAFE Agile deliverables:
- Project planning/release planning
- Sprint planning, kickoffs, demos and retrospectives
- Backlog grooming in coordination with Product Owner
- Daily standups and KANBAN
- Weekly sprint summary reports
- Responsible for all product deliverables
- Mature and continuously improve product team
- Produce high quality products, increase productivity, reduce time-to-market, stakeholder satisfaction, more engaged employees
- Team building and servant-leadership of teams
- Communicate the status and key metrics for all issues and product deliverables with all levels of management
- Research and make recommendations regarding technologies when necessary
- Support and promote the work of the team
- Drive and promote agile principles, values and practices
- Responsible for the development of high-performing product Team
- Evangelize Agile Principles and Values to team
- Coach and provide servant leadership for teams success and self-organization
- Develop and prepare team for cross-performance by reinforcing paired programming and role-sharing
- Help to grow the agile practice broadly across Medica
- Developing teams understanding of definition of done
- Educating the business stakeholders on Scrum principles
- Maintain knowledge of system environments, processes, applications and integrations
- Learn and support key vendor partnerships
- Maintain an understanding of IT related technologies and solutions
- Maintain Industry knowledge - process, people and nuances of the business
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- Major: Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems or equivalent work
- Years of experience required: 5 years
- UI, and Digital Front End Portal experience
- Strong leadership skills, and Effective meeting facilitation
- Technical expertise and the ability to relate technical information broadly
- Ability to resolve conflicts, and escalate when necessary
- Communication across IT and Business teams
- Identify and leverage the skills, energy and talents of others
- Ability to create a strong and supportive team
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies (Scrum/Lean/Kanban). Strong understanding of Scrum tools and concepts (Release Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown, Velocity, User Stories, Complexity, Estimating, Story Boarding/Mapping, Definition of Done, etc.)
- 2 years of SAFe Agile Experience
- 4 years of Experience leading IT project delivery with experience and knowledge of IT infrastructure, resource management, database design, and other systems support and development.
- Certified Scrum Master Certification, Formal Agile Training
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