Senior Scrum Master

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Description

The Scrum Master to oversee and guide scrum development teams. The Scrum Master should ensure that the development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. The Scrum master will use agile and waterfall practices to effectively manage the development teams. The Scrum Master should have excellent interpersonal, project management and problem-solving skills and know how to manage people, timelines and technologies in order make sure the development team deliver new capabilities to the business team.

Responsibilities

Manage development team scopes and timelines.

Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.

Be the representative of the IT manager / Director on the development team daily activities.

Work with business product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.

Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and stand-ups.

Be the point of contact for external team communications (e.g. from customers or external team / department)

Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.

Help teams implement changes effectively.

Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.

Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint

Using agile and waterfall methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.

3 years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.

Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, frameworks and technology.

Leadership and management experience.

Excellent people and project management skills.

Strong communication and presentation skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred qualifications

Certified Scrum Master.

Masters Degree

Exposure to healthcare industry, knowledge of Medicare Risk Adjustment process and EDI knowledge

Experience with Azure cloud or GCP cloud platform projects

Additional Information

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com