Scrum Master

Job Description

Help us lead our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have problem-solving or technical experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Scrum Master Exercises judgment in the evaluation, selection, and adaptation of both standard and complex techniques and procedures. Utilizes in-depth professional knowledge and acumen to develop models and procedures and monitor trends.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for scheduling, leading and facilitating effective agile team meetings
• Drives continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and ensuring teams act on improvement items
• Provides coaching to Team Members to ensure they demonstrate appropriate Agile behaviors and following Cigna-specific Agile practices
• Builds high-performing teams
• Protects the team and communicates risks (removes impediments/blockers)
• Helps coordinate inter-team cooperation
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for Agile ceremonies
• Facilitates team progress towards the Iteration and Program Increment Goals
• Supports team during estimation activities
• Supports the Agile Product Owner
• Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product, and can communicate this to the team
• Helps track agile team metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes), and monitors these on an ongoing basis
• Facilitates process of deciding which User Stories will be included in each iteration through understanding team’s velocity, capacity and story scope and size
• Facilitates team working with Agile Product Owner to re-balance and re-prioritize work within an iteration
• Protects Scrum team from distractions and interruptions by people outside the team
• Understands technology roadmap and help team fit their work into this roadmap, where applicable
• Provides visibility into progress by maintaining Jira, burndown charts, velocity analysis, etc.
• Empowers and motivates the team to self-organize
• Ensures the necessary tools are set up for the team (including software, collaboration tools, Jira, CI/CD, etc.)
• Ensures that the team has established working agreements with relevant Operations team(s) on how software will be tested, deployed and operated, including who is accountable
• Maintains accurate team rosters and ensuring team member data such as primary role, team affiliation and team allocations are accurate and up to date
• Support a single agile team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Scrum Master Certification strongly preferred
• SAFe Agilest Certification strongly preferred
• Experience working in a scaled agile framework preferred
• Minimum 2 Years of Agile Scrum Master experience preferred
• Advanced presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand business needs and execute on a business strategy
• Deep understanding of Agile development processes and methodology
• Sufficient understanding of technology/business to lead Scrum team and assist in overcoming roadblocks.
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and concepts

About The Cigna Group

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.