Hybrid Scrum Master

at The Hartford

• Job title: Scrum Master
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $92,000 - $163,200 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hartford, United States

About the role

• Senior Scrum Master at The Hartford facilitating Agile project delivery. Seeking experienced professional with strong leadership in Agile environments and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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
• 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

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience working and managing Agile team structures (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience with SAFe is a plus
• Strong knowledge and experience working with Agile reports/Metrics
• Experience working with PO in backlog grooming/refinements
• Experience in participating in Program increment (PI Planning)
• Experience in Estimation and Story pointing
• Experience in Team Planning- Capacity/velocity
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills and ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Scrum Master certification preferred

Benefits

• Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
• long-term incentives
• on-the-spot recognition