Company Description

Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we've built our reputation on over 80 years' worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors-our members. If you're passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

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Job Description

About the Career: As a Scrum Master, you will be committed to creating high performing scrum teams through increasing team efficiencies and driving accountability to meet committed team deliverables. You will be an agent of change. In this role, you will seek to motivate and facilitate the scrum teams to self-organization, high quality, and team ownership. And you will work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Our Ideal Candidate: You've had someone in your life describe you as a disruptor, a change agent, an agile evangelist, or relentless for improvement. You are an expert at building and fostering relationships (virtually as well as in person). You feel strong when you are reaching across the enterprise to bring the right people to the table. You find it easy to summarize large amounts of information in a way that is consumable by various audiences, up to and including C level. You are confident in your abilities as a Scrum Master and are energized to contribute to our community of practice to share knowledge and learn from other scrum masters. While you may not have insurance industry experience, you are looking forward to learning more about Wellmark and the industry. The team you will be joining is focused on ingestion, manipulating, and vending Provider, Healthcare Services and Customer Service Data for the company.

Hybrid role - located in Des Moines, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA or Sioux Falls, SD

Qualifications

Required:

* Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience
* Minimum 4+ years of industry experience in the IT software development industry; with at least 2 years as a formal Scrum Master and software development project manager with expertise in SDLC and Agile
* Prior experience estimating, developing Sprint planning and plan iterations, leading Scrum activities and meetings/stand-ups, conducting Sprint reviews and demos and retrospective meetings, and leading teams through to successful delivery of software development initiatives
* Agile/Lean mind set of adding value and eliminating waste; including experience working with Agile software project management tools
* Experience with agile business analysis, including documentation of user stories and test requirements, process documentation
* The ability to work well in a team environment and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers
* Ability to identify approaches, risks, mitigation strategies to meet client/functional requirements
* Consulting skills required with, excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
* Proficient Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project skills, SharePoint
* Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) knowledge

Preferred:

* Bachelor's degree
* Possess or is willing to pursue certifications in Scrum, Project Management, or other related certifications. Sigma Green Belt Certified
* Servant Leadership Training
* Certified Scrum Master

Additional Information

a. Leads all Scrum Events; Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice and guidelines; supports the Product Owner in Product Backlog management.

b. Ensure everyone has a voice, inviting participation from all. Seek to understand the root causes of issues and tackle them, rather than just the symptoms. Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels and move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

c. Responsible for getting teams to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching/development techniques. Works with team to resolve team impediments. Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.

d. Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization. Works with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

e. Works with the managers and Business Partners to provide feedback and escalate team impediments, assisting with resource activities (e.g. infrastructure support, licensing, etc.) and team growth.

f. Assist with internal communications (to other teams, stakeholders, project management, governance, and leadership) and external communications (including vendors) to provide transparency. Collaborate with other teams, stakeholders, managers and vendors on planning and release alignment as needed.

g. Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles. Coaches teams in self-organization and cross-functional skillset and domain knowledge.

h. Other duties as assigned.

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