Scrum Master

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6 Month Contract (temp to perm possible)
Boston location highly preferred.

We are looking for an senior level scrum master who can join our team ASAP delivering insurance product innovations. We build engaging digital services and capabilities with autonomy to experiment with customer experiences under a different client-backed brand. Innovation drives the experiences we deliver to grow the brand and adopt winning features into core Client. You will team up with amazing engineers who are passionate about the unique value proposition.

Overview:
– Prior insurance industry experience is always a plus
– Prior exposure to agile methodologies as this will be a start up type environment
– Collaborative leader
– Must have software: Jira, confluence, slack
– Temp to perm
Core responsibilities include:
• Lead scrum teams in using Agile methodology and scrum practices. Current teams do not have a dedicated scrum master and need an emphasis on:
• Coaching on Agile development (since teams are relatively new to Agile)
• Backlog creation and refinement
• Metrics (cycle/lead times, burn-up/burn-down, deploy frequency, etc)
• Lead team ceremonies (sprint stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve KPI/OKRs, PI and Sprint Objectives, with an emphasis on:
• Delivering on new product launches, experiments and feature delivery, while contributing to Platform (DevOps Pipeline, AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Quality Engineering) enhancements
• Lead the scrum teams in self-organization. With the upcoming doubling of the organization size, there is an emphasis on:
• Forming and norming new teams, or helping to scale up existing partial squads to full squads
• Working collaboratively with offshore (Belfast, UK) scrum master who is performing the same functions with Belfast-based teams
• Working collaboratively with Senior Scrum Master who is supporting the full train

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