Scrum Master Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

Location: Prakāshamnagar

Position Overview

We are looking for an innovative and experienced  Scrum Master (Associate Advisor)  to join our  Individual and Family Plans engineering  team.

Serves as the 'servant leader' of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule. Must have a sufficient understanding of technology to enable them to lead team members and help them overcome their development roadblocks; they must also understand business strategy and objectives and be able to ensure that development work is prioritized by business value and results align with objectives.

The incumbent provides expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects. Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives. Uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders. Focuses on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert on Scrum.

Required Experience & Education

College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.
8 – 11 years of overall professional experience, with 3–5 years in a Scrum Master or similar Agile delivery role
Experience in a Scrum Master role for at least two years in a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices and theory.
CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
SSM (Certified SAFe Scrum Master)
Second level Scrum Master Certification (CSP, PSM II)

Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.
Proven experience with architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions.

Responsibilities

Serves as the 'servant leader' of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule.
Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects.
Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
Focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert
Exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership and the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset.
Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
Facilitate the team's progress toward the goal and is constantly engaged in challenging the old norms and roles while keeping the team focused on the goals of the iteration
Monitor and analyze key team performance metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, and cycle time to identify trends, optimizing processes and drive continuous improvement opportunities in their team's agile practices.
Familiarity with product-centric team structures and the product operating model, with an ability to support teams aligned to customer value and product outcomes.
Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of the current PI objectives.
Facilitate all team ceremonies, including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, system demo, and iteration retrospective
Eliminate Impediments:many blocking issues will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.

The Scrum Master actively addresses these issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the iteration
Communicate with Management and outside stakeholders.

Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
Agile Coach. Coaches and supports the team and those supporting the team in pragmatic, standard, best agile practices
Work with to identify process improvement opportunities to deliver business value faster.
Engage and develop the Change Management approach for any standard and best practices which includes but not limited to: direct communications, facilitation of training sessions and automate reporting on adoption of best practices.
Support shared services (e.g. Cigna Information Protection, Infrastructure Solutions Group) &…