Scrum Master

At Value Momentum’s Technology Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas:
Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise.

Scrum master’s to Support P&C work, Claims work, Customer service, Production support and underwriting work within P&C insurance

• The ideal candidate will be a servant leader, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring effective adoption of Agile/Scrum principles within the context of P&C insurance processes and technology.
• Responsibilities
• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies:
  Organize and lead all Scrum events, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and kept within timeboxes.
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Proactively identify, track, and remove impediments or blockers that hinder the team's progress, protecting the team from outside interference and distractions.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between the technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with the overall program goals.
• Assist the Product Owner with effective backlog management, helping ensure product backlog items are clear, concise, and ready for the next sprint.
• Track and communicate Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts, KPIs) to monitor project health, identify areas for improvement, and provide regular updates to leadership.
• Advocate for quality practices, ensuring the team adheres to the "Definition of Done" and focuses on delivering high-value, quality software increments that meet performance expectations.

• Specific experience in the insurance industry, preferably within P&C (Property & Casualty) and with exposure to policy, billing, or claims systems
• Must be familiar with handling BOP, WC, Commercial Auto and other commercial products
• Must have experience with Claim processes within P&C insurance
• Strong knowledge and experience working with Agile reports/Metrics.
• Experience working with PO in backlog grooming/refinements.
• Experience in participating in Program increment
• Experience in Estimation and Story pointing.
• Experience in Team Planning
  - Capacity/velocity
• Experience working in a hybrid environment with both onshore and offshore team members.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, SAFe).
• Proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Confluence).
• General understanding of software development principles to effectively communicate with the development team and understand their challenges.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFE