Scrum Master

at Modis
Published November 23, 2021
Location Oak Brook, IL
Category Default  
Job Type Full-time  

Description

Scrum Master

Direct Hire (not eligible for C2C or Sponsorship)
100% Remote

The nation's leading provider of Insuarnce is seeking a Scrum Master to join their dynamic team!

 

ABOUT THE ROLE: The Scrum Master is responsible for managing all Agile team processes, promoting collaboration and developing ways to show team productivity, impacts and opportunities for improvements. This role should also have a technical understanding of software development and technology in order to challenge the teams and strive for improving our agile best practices.   Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate all agile related meetings (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, etc.) and ensure productivity and value
  • Lead product teams in using Agile methodology and practices, while empowering, energizing and motivating the teams
  • Assist the delivery team to estimate work, define/validate requirements and create deliverables
  • Partner with engineering, product, and business to build highly collaborative teams and to enhance communication across teams and stakeholders
  • Provide guidance and direction required for meeting business and technical objectives
  • Coordinate tasks across product teams, promote self-management and proactively resolve conflicts and barriers
  • Identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
  • Work with product owners to understand and document business processes/rules, identify areas for improvement and define/document solutions to existing problems
  • Work with business stakeholders, product teams and cross functional teams to gather and document business requirements
  •   Required Skills/Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • 5 + years of experience in Agile Methodologies with a minimum of three years in the Scrum Master role
  • Experience using Agile tools such as JIRA
  • Preferred (not required): Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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