Scrum Master

We currently have an exciting new opportunity for a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master plays a critical role as a facilitator, coach and servant leader in IS & T development initiatives at HealthPartners and is responsible for ensuring the adoption and adherence to Scrum practices within their team.

At HealthPartners, you’ll find a culture where we live our values of excellence, compassion, integrity and most importantly, partnership. By working together, we will improve health and well-being, create exceptional experiences for those we serve and make care and coverage more affordable.

Accountabilities:

• Facilitate the activities of an Agile software development team encouraging and supporting the teams to self-manage their iterations using a servant-leader management style
• Ensure self-organized team’s continuous improvement through monitoring and coaching
• Assist the Product Owner in maintaining a product strategy/roadmap through story mapping and other Agile activities
• Work with the Product Owners and Business Analysts to identify that the product backlog is prioritized and refined to the appropriate level to start and continue development iterations
• Schedule and facilitate all Scrum team ceremonies including release and sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, demos and retrospectives
• Remove impediments for the team(s) and escalate issues as appropriate
• Actively contribute to the company’s scrum community through participation in the internal Scrum Master Community of Practice
• Develop team members through coaching and by fostering a positive work environment
• Proactively identify risks and dependencies and escalate with Product Owner as necessary
• Collaboratively partner with various levels throughout the organization to achieve goals and remove impediments
• Responsible for collecting and preparing metrics such as the teams capacity, velocity and burndown rate on an ongoing basis
• Assist with deployment and release planning and if necessary coordinate across multiple teams
• Consistently advocate for great agile/iterative development practices within the organization.
• Monthly project status reporting
• Monitoring of project spend against budget

Competencies/Skills/Experience:

• Understand the fundamentals of Agile and iterative development
• Flexibility and focus on “getting the job done” by adjusting roles and tasks to meet specific situational challenges
• Ability to manage multiple, ongoing initiatives as needed
• Expert facilitator and negotiator
• Attitude of empowerment and ability to lead their team to self-organization

Required qualifications:

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for 1 to 3 years in a software development team.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Scrum Master Certification or equivalent training
• 4 year degree in a related field
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Etc.
• Experience working in an environment that practices CI/CD

HealthPartners is recognized nationally for providing outstanding care and experience for patients and members. We offer an excellent salary and benefits package. For more information and to apply go to www.healthpartners.com/careers and search for job ID #47952.

Additional Information:

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.