Senior Scrum Master

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Personal Insurance is looking for a Senior Scrum Master with experience to manage the execution of initiatives within our Customer Experience Value Stream. We are seeking a highly motivated, results oriented individual with strong Agile, technical and leadership skills. 

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). 

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all the Agile/SCRUM ceremonies - DSU's, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Retrospective/Sprint demos.
• Partners with the Product Owner, IT Delivery Lead and Business leadership to form execution delivery plans and manage progress and facilitates release planning.
• Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.
• Reports to Release Train Engineer and works closely with the RTE for overall delivery of Agile release train PI objectives.
• Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team
• Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders.
• Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Motivate the team to be disciplined and accountable for ensuring the Agile tools(Rally/JIRA) hygiene is maintained.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience working and managing Agile team structures (Scrum/Kanban).  Experience with SAFe is a plus. 
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology, rules, and practices 
• Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Strong Knowledge about Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Burn Down Metrics, Velocity etc. 
• Resource Management Skills: Ability to determine supply and demand and obtain necessary resources across a matrixed organization to complete the work successfully.
• Agile Mindset: Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment. Infuse Agile principles, practices and methodologies to achieve team success.
• Strong technical skills including understanding of technical architecture
• Deep experience partnering with LOB stakeholders
• Superior organization skills with the ability to simultaneously handle multiple initiatives and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to present confidently before a large audience.
• Effective organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
• Insurance industry experience preferred.

Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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