Scrum Master
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Other
Job Description
Contract length: 6 month contract, with a possibility
of an extension, but not guaranteed.
Travel: 10%
Location: This position will be based in Columbus,
Georgia
Project:
Apollo - To provide the infrastructure necessary to support
a D2C channel.
Scope:
Transmissions of applications into the
Everwell/SNG bridge when built residentially on a Third Party Partner Platform,
to include creation of a transmittal, when needed
Creation of Applicant Service "Lite"
system for communicating with an applicant regarding status of their
application or pending issues, including identity management
Resubmission of applications electronically when
enrolled electronically - enabling D2C applicants to correct pending
applications without using snail mail notification of error and faxed
corrections
Receipt and reprocessing of resubmitting
electronic applications in back-end mainframe New Business systems
Job Summary:
As a servant leader ensures agile values and principles are
understood and enacted by the agile teams. Trains and coaches the agile teams
on agile values, principles, practices, frameworks and tools. Helps the teams
to continuously improve their performance and increase business agility.
Principal Duties Responsibilities:
Train, coach and mentor one or more teams to
embrace agile values and principles
Train and coach the teams on all aspects of
planning and execution including vision, release roadmap, user story creation,
story mapping, release planning, sprint events, progress monitoring and
continuous improvement
Help the teams to focus on sprint and release
goals and delivery commitments and help to solve team impediments as well as
protect the team from external interferences
Interface with other agile teams and the rest of
the organization to manage dependencies and coach other agile teams, program
level and portfolio level teams as needed
Constantly strive to improve the teams’
performance
Define and roll out agile metrics and assist
with the identification, collection and reporting on metrics and make
recommendation for improvements to respective stakeholders across the
enterprise.
Provide visibility to the stakeholders by
defining and implementing information radiators. Define metrics, identify
and collect data and report metrics and status to stakeholders periodically and
as needed
Provide guidance on achieving higher levels of
agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and
enterprise frameworks
Provide feedback from teams’ retrospectives to
the Enterprise Agility Office for improvement
Performs
other duties as required
Education Experience:
Bachelor’s
degree in computer science, business administration or related field and four
to five years of experience in software product or application development,
business analysis, or project management or an equivalent combination of
education and experience.
Minimum
of one year of experience as a Scrum Master (required)
Certifications
in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile
Delivery (DAD) (preferred)
Certified
Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner (preferred)
Certified
Scrum Professional (CSP) (preferred)
Minimum
of two years Scrum Master experience
Experience
in software product or application development, business analysis or
project management
Experience
as a Development Team Member of an Agile Team before becoming a Scrum
Master
of an extension, but not guaranteed.
Travel: 10%
Location: This position will be based in Columbus,
Georgia
Project:
Apollo - To provide the infrastructure necessary to support
a D2C channel.
Scope:
Transmissions of applications into the
Everwell/SNG bridge when built residentially on a Third Party Partner Platform,
to include creation of a transmittal, when needed
Creation of Applicant Service "Lite"
system for communicating with an applicant regarding status of their
application or pending issues, including identity management
Resubmission of applications electronically when
enrolled electronically - enabling D2C applicants to correct pending
applications without using snail mail notification of error and faxed
corrections
Receipt and reprocessing of resubmitting
electronic applications in back-end mainframe New Business systems
Job Summary:
As a servant leader ensures agile values and principles are
understood and enacted by the agile teams. Trains and coaches the agile teams
on agile values, principles, practices, frameworks and tools. Helps the teams
to continuously improve their performance and increase business agility.
Principal Duties Responsibilities:
Train, coach and mentor one or more teams to
embrace agile values and principles
Train and coach the teams on all aspects of
planning and execution including vision, release roadmap, user story creation,
story mapping, release planning, sprint events, progress monitoring and
continuous improvement
Help the teams to focus on sprint and release
goals and delivery commitments and help to solve team impediments as well as
protect the team from external interferences
Interface with other agile teams and the rest of
the organization to manage dependencies and coach other agile teams, program
level and portfolio level teams as needed
Constantly strive to improve the teams’
performance
Define and roll out agile metrics and assist
with the identification, collection and reporting on metrics and make
recommendation for improvements to respective stakeholders across the
enterprise.
Provide visibility to the stakeholders by
defining and implementing information radiators. Define metrics, identify
and collect data and report metrics and status to stakeholders periodically and
as needed
Provide guidance on achieving higher levels of
agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and
enterprise frameworks
Provide feedback from teams’ retrospectives to
the Enterprise Agility Office for improvement
Performs
other duties as required
Education Experience:
Bachelor’s
degree in computer science, business administration or related field and four
to five years of experience in software product or application development,
business analysis, or project management or an equivalent combination of
education and experience.
Minimum
of one year of experience as a Scrum Master (required)
Certifications
in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile
Delivery (DAD) (preferred)
Certified
Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner (preferred)
Certified
Scrum Professional (CSP) (preferred)
Minimum
of two years Scrum Master experience
Experience
in software product or application development, business analysis or
project management
Experience
as a Development Team Member of an Agile Team before becoming a Scrum
Master