| SAFe Agile Scrum Master: • Experience working within SAFe- Must Have • Organizational Skills- Must Have • Strong Communication skills- Must Have • Ability to mentor team members on agile/SAFe best practices- Must Have RESPONSIBILITIES/TASKS: • Leads one or more agile teams as the scrum master and team member. • Employs best practices for agile/scrum methodology, while operating within the department’s overall SDLC Framework. • Works collaboratively with the product managers and team members to give input and support to the strategic direction of the initiative. • Motivates and supports team members and ensures they have the tools and knowledge to do their jobs and that all blocking issues are resolved quickly. • Creates self-organizing agile teams and facilitates the delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members. • Acts as moderator for sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demos, and refactoring/reflection sessions. • In partnership with the Product manager & Product Owner ensure a robust, prioritized backlog is available. • Supports Product Manager in understanding and communicating team effectiveness and performance. • Communicates team status to all internal stakeholders and continuously refines/improves metrics by working with the team. • Coordinates cross team dependencies with other Scrum Masters and participate in Agile Community of Practice (CoP). • Escalates issues that require executive attention. • Discovers opportunities to support organizational initiatives and develops strategies and programs to promote initiatives. • Participates in the development of programs as a strategic partner that supports the company plan as directed by leadership. • Provides planning, project coordination, and management for the development of organizational initiatives, while concurrently facilitating efficient operations to meet current and future business needs within the organization. • Responsible for balancing workload to optimize the effectiveness of project development and management. • Performs analysis to determine root cause of challenges and provides solutions for improved operational and process performance. SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES (SKA) REQUIRED: • Clear understanding of one of the agile frameworks and key best practices (Disciplined Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc.). • Strong analytical, problem solving and planning skills. • Must demonstrate leadership ability to effectively interact with all levels of management. • Stakeholder Management, Negotiation and Communication skills. • Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development. • Ability to help manage scrum team backlog and priorities using agile based tools (ServiceNow, Jira, Rally/Central Agile, Version1, etc.). • Excellent communication, facilitation and mentoring skills. • Ability to effectively present budgetary and/or cost information, and respond to questions as appropriate. • Demonstrable conflict resolution skills. • Demonstrable risk management and mitigation skills. • Knowledge of tools used to assist with scrum team planning (ServiceNow, Jira, Agile Manager, Version1, etc.). • Ability to be flexible as projects are often non-routine and require re-prioritizing of workload. • Ability to maintain confidentiality. • Ability to perform other assignments as required by senior management. • Knowledge of workers compensations industry preferred. |