Job Description

Job description

This is a temporary contract opportunity with The Cigna Group through Magnit, an enterprise third-party vendor for contingent work.

Duties

We are looking for an innovative and experienced Scrum Master (SM) to join our Interoperability Product & Planning team. An SM’s primary focus is to help create an environment where our teams can deliver high quality solutions with a “one team” approach, and not have to worry about the operational aspect of a project. SMs typically focus on upholding the values of Scrum, facilitating meetings and discussions, and removing blockers, while also focusing on a team’s deliverables.

A successful SM serves as the “servant leader” of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule. This person must have a sufficient understanding of technology to enable them to lead team members and help the team overcome development roadblocks. The SM must also understand business strategy and objectives and be able to ensure that development work is prioritized by business value and that results align with objectives. This person exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives, and is recognized internally as having strong knowledge of Scrum practices. The SM also uses professional knowledge and acumen to engage with functional leaders on deliverables statuses and scrum metric reporting and maintains an open dialogue on deliverable risks and dependencies.

Skills

Job Description & Responsibilities:

• Servant Leader for the team with excellent communication skills.
• Cross collaborates with members of the team from various functions, including Product Managers and Owners, Engineering Leads and Developers, and Data Governance advisors and brings these functional roles together as “one team” to drive outcomes.
• Guides the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
• Guides the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Guides the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps of the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Assesses the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removes impediments or guides the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assists with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supports and educates the Product Manager or Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Provides all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Primary Skills:

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master for 3 or more teams simultaneously
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Detailed oriented with proven ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Applicable knowledge of technologies used by engineering teams, i.e. API, SQL, Python, Databricks, AWS, Json

Experience Required:

• 7 - 9 Years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience / working knowledge of Agile methodology
• Experience / working knowledge of Jira
• Experience working with advanced technical teams

Experience Desired:

• Worked in a senior Scrum Master role for a software development team that has diligently applied Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Knowledge of Healthcare Interoperability is a plus

Education Required:

• BS or BA degree in Business, Technology highly preferred or equivalent work experience and training (15+ years of experience preferred if no degree)
• Certified Scrum Master REQUIRED
• Second level Scrum Master Certification (CSP, PSM II) is a plus+

Schedule Notes

• 100% Remote - Core Hours 9 am-5 pm EST
• M-F, 40hrs/week

Hourly Pay Rate Range (dependent on location, experience, expectation)

The pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position is: $56.90 - $75.86/hr on W2

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)

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