Scrum Master, Consultant

Job Description

Your Role

This role resides within the Claims & Payment team under Core Health Plan Platform. The candidate will report to the Senior Manager, IT Development. In this role you will be responsible for leading, facilitating, and driving continuous improvement of Agile practices for the team or teams that you'll be supporting. The Portfolio is responsible for the development and support of complex technology solutions from claims processing to benefit enrollment. The Agile team that this role will lead has representation from across our matrixed organization including IT, business & vendor partners to deliver value and capabilities that meet the needs of our customers. We strive to deliver sustainable solutions that optimize cost, quality, and fit for purpose.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Provide Agile team support by serving as the Scrum Master and Team Coach for Agile teams, ensuring smooth operation and adherence to Agile principles
• Educate and lead one or more Agile teams in Scrum, Built-in Quality, Kanban, and Scaled Agile (SAFe) principles and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning readiness by preparing Agile teams for PI Planning sessions, guiding the creation of PI plans, objectives, and business values, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Management roles across the enterprise, contributing to the maturation of business units along with IT agile teams on the path towards our business agility
• Lead iteration execution by facilitating key team events, including backlog refinement, team planning, team synchronization, team review, demo, and retrospective sessions, fostering collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and Scaled Agile (SAFe) Certification and 7 years of Project Management skills or Scrum Master experience
• Requires Scaled Agile (SAFe) certification: Scrum Master or Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
• Preferred Scrum Master certification (PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC); CSM, A-CSM (Scrum Alliance certifications)
• Preferred experience as a Scrum Master role for minimum of two years for a Scrum team
• Preferred experience using JIRA and AgilePlace
• Preferred Healthcare experience

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About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.