Sr. Scrum Master

Sr. Scrum Master Hybrid Position

Insurance Client (Property & casualty insurance )

Location: Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, can be secondary

Rate: DOE

Core skills -

5-8 years of Property and Commercial insurance experience.

You need to have strong experience with the P&C Insurance industry.

• You are certified as a Scrum Master (CSM) & hold SAFe certification
• You have significant experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, helping development teams apply Agile, Scrum/SAFe & DevSecOps practices
• Coaching two Scrum teams to achieve greater Agile maturity while maintaining a sustainable and productive development pace
• Facilitating all Agile ceremonies, incl. sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to keep the teams aligned & on track
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and facilitate Program Increment (PI) execution
• Work alongside the product owner as a key team leader to proactively identify and resolve potential challenges before they arise
• Maintain relevant metrics that report on progress (e.g. burndown charts, defect trends, user story/feature completion rates, capacity, velocity)
• Supporting and enabling product owners in managing backlogs, refining user stories, and ensuring priorities are clear to drive successful sprint outcomes, in line with business KPIs
• Anticipating and resolving obstacles that hinder progress, enabling your teams to focus on their goals and deliver value consistently
• Acting as a change agent, advocating for Agile principles and best practices across teams and the organization. Coaching team towards self-organization within SAFe
• Communication: Foster internal team communication by building a trusting and safe environment where the emphasis on problem-solving. Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Influence stakeholders' including leaders Agile behavior's through direct feedback and guidance
• Engage with individual squad members and group to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance and practices and enhance Agile mindset

What is needed to be successful

• Strong leadership skills, with a track record of proactively driving process improvements and solving problems for the product team to enhance ability to deliver value
• Ability to create value for the product by actively anticipating and resolving issues
• You are proficient in Agile methodologies and experienced in proactively identifying and removing roadblocks to help teams maintain and enhance momentum
• You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to lead Agile ceremonies and track progress metrics (i.e. burndown charts, velocity, and user story completion rates)
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build trust within teams and facilitate effective collaboration between team members and stakeholders across the business
• You are an effective and experienced coach, capable of guiding teams to be self-organizing and achieve their objectives.
• You are passionate about Agile and have experience in highly matrixed organizations where influencing without direct authority is key to success
• You have been involved with Agile Release Train / acted as a Release Train Engineer
• Experience with Artificial intelligence and how it can be applied in insurance and beyond.
• You ll be working alongside talented colleagues, innovating and contributing to projects that will transform how we manage risk and serve our customers.