Scrum Master

The Scrum Master role at Assurant provides effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills to the Agile development process and delivery of applications, as well as enforcing the Agile tenants, removing impediments, and promoting empowerment. Candidates must have exceptional communication skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, excellent judgment, and the ability to be productive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it

• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software

• Manage more than one Sprint team with overlapping timelines and proactively manage dependencies within and across teams

• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and Sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective – ensure all participants understand the ceremony’s purpose and keep to the time-box

• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint/release progress

• Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration – both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize

• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the Sprint goal

• Understand and be able to articulate strategic product planning and goals in the team’s environment and progress toward them

• Supports Product Owner, ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 Sprints.

• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition

• Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items, and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria

• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs

• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice

• Participate in the Agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners

• Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops

• Scrum Masters are considered part of leadership and are expected to get work done through influence without having any direct reports

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tool

• Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills

• Strong understanding of Agile practices for: retrospectives, daily standups, sprint planning, burn down and related techniques

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Agile experience within a multi-team organization

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Industry certification

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master

• Experience driving the change from Waterfall to Agile mindsets

• Experience working with distributed, virtual teams

• Ability to collaborate and exercise influence without authority

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Pay Range:

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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