Agile Scrum Master

Advalent was founded in 2013 with the mission to advance the technology payers use to manage their complex businesses.

The goal was to create a flexible, easy-to-use product that finally connects the disparate systems that make healthcare reimbursement so challenging. By eliminating cumbersome data collection and exchange challenges, Advalent was able to create true care administration automation, for modern new products including even the most complex value-based products.

Today, Advalent continues to successfully empower payers with its advanced technology, providing a path to a new and better kind of healthcare.

As an Agile Scrum Master at Advalent, you will be responsible for leading top-notch cross-functional teams from development using Agile methodologies. You will properly document user stories, and sprints in Jira to provide visibility and awareness throughout various stages of the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Sprint Planning: help the team commit to a sprint goal with your product owner and decompose all stories and defect work into tasks with owners and estimates.
• Daily Standup: help the team report to each other on their progress every day and uncover issues that may be slowing them down. Resolve those issues immediately.
• Sprint Review: help the team review their sprint’s work with each other and the business and update the product backlog with any new things learned by the team and the business over the course of the sprint.
• Team Retrospective: help the team inspect its work practices and team culture and to identify incremental improvements that will help them be more successful.
• Backlog Grooming: help the team and product owner keep the product backlog relevant and prioritized, making sure acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing. Help the team size their stories for planning and forecasting purposes.
• Ensure productivity by fostering team communication, empowerment, and accountability. Help the team manage and resolve conflicts.
• Manage the vendor relationship with our partners and ensure their work aligns with the goals of our agile development teams.

The Experience You’ll Need (Required)

• Scrum Master Certification or 5+ years Scrum Master experience.
• In-depth knowledge of agile and when to deploy Kanban/Scrum.
• Skilled Scrum Master with experience in Jira.
• Leadership qualities that enable the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Highly adaptable to changing environment and priorities.
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse and geographically dispersed teams.
• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive full-time salary
• 80% covered health care plan
• PTO
• Casual dress code, no need to dress up
• On-demand lattes (Vanilla, Hazelnut, Caramel, and something seasonal)
• Fully stocked kitchen full of snacks and drinks
• Daily ping-pong tournaments
• Monthly performance-based celebrations
• The best team culture in South Florida

Advalent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• Scrum Master: 5 years (Required)